漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
栃: horse chestnut
N1 (our estimate)9 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
木 carries the meaning · 厂 and 万 are drawn in
9 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
とちtochi · kun'yomi · on its own
- 栃若とちわかTochinishiki and Wakanohana I (dominant…
- 栃麺とちめんnoodles made from regular flour and horse…
- 栃餅とちもちcake made from pounded horse chestnuts and…
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
万
Also built on ten thousand (万)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side栃 horse chestnut · 木
vs励 encourage · 力In ChineseMade in Japan, no Chinese counterpart
栃 is a kokuji, a kanji created in Japan. Chinese has no standard counterpart.
Unihan lists the reading lì for it.
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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