漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
柵: stockade, fence
Also: weir, entwine around
N1 (our estimate)9 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
木 carries the meaning · 冊 is drawn in
9 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
サクsaku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 柵さくfence; paling; railing
- 鉄柵てっさくiron railing; iron fence
- 電柵でんさくelectric fence
Also read サン, しがらむ, しがらみ, とりで, やらい, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 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
冊
Also built on tome (冊)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side柵 stockade · 冊
vs枯 wither · 古In ChineseSimplified 栅 · traditional, as in Japanese · zhà
Japan keeps the traditional form 柵; mainland China simplifies it to 栅.
- Simplified
- 栅 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 柵 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhà 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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