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漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

村: village, town

JLPT N27 strokesGrade 1Your ink: 白 Not met

木 carries the meaning · 寸 gives the sound

7 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

ソンson · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 農村のうそんfarm village
  • 漁村ぎょそんfishing village
  • 村落そんらくvillage
  • 山村さんそんmountain village
  • 村長そんちょうvillage headman; village mayor
  • 町村ちょうそんtowns and villages

むらmura · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 村むらvillage
  • 村人むらびとvillager

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)木 tree (meaning) + 寸 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 村 (rev. 93764471), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Tree (木) + inch/rule (寸). It originally referred to a small settlement founded at the edge of a specific, managed group of "trees."”
From the 木 tree story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
木

Also built on tree (木)

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寸

Also built on inch (寸)

All 24

The 寸 sound family doesn't share one reading.

Also read ソン

6 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · cūn

Same form: 村 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
村 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
村 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin cūn most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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