漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
束: bundle, sheaf
Also: ream, tie in bundles, govern, manage, control
JLPT N37 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
木 carries the meaning · 口 is drawn in
7 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
ソクsoku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 約束するやくそくするpromise [v.t.]
- 結束するけっそくするband together, unite
- 束縛するそくばくするrestrain, bind, shackle
たばtaba · kun'yomi · on its own
- 花束はなたばbouquet
- 札束さつたばroll of banknotes
たばねるtabaneru · kun'yomi
- 束ねるたばねるbundle [v.t.]
Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.
- 束の間つかのまbrief moment
Also read つか, つかねる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Stand before a great, ancient tree and see 木! The vertical line is the sturdy trunk, the top strokes are branches reaching for the sunlight, and the bottom strokes are the roots gripping the earth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · shù
Same form: 束 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 束 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 束 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin shù 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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