漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
条: article, clause
Also: counter for articles, clauses, paragraphs, etc., twig, item, stripe, streak
木 carries the meaning · 夂 gives the sound
One reading, and the words that use it
ジョウjou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 条件じょうけんconditions, terms
- 条約じょうやくtreaty, pact
- 条項じょうこうarticle, stipulations
- 第九条だいきゅうじょうarticle number nine
- 信条しんじょうcreed
- 星条旗せいじょうきStars and Stripes
Also read チョウ, デキ, えだ, すじ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)攸 (sound) + 木 (meaning)
Originally it indicates a small branch, perhaps with some reference to a wooden stick (in the top component, there is a man warned by a hand holding a vertical stick). The bottom part of the character is unrelated to 茶.
Source: Wiktionary, 條 (rev. 93768899), CC BY-SA 4.0
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.”
Connections
Also read デキ
1 kanji shares this on'yomiIn ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 條 · tiáo
Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 条. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 條.
- Simplified
- 条 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 條 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin tiáo most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.