漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
桁: beam, girder
Also: spar, unit or column (accounting)
N1 (our estimate)10 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
木 carries the meaning · 行 is drawn in
10 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 衣桁いこうclothes rack
けたketa · kun'yomi · on its own
- 桁けたcolumn; beam; girder
- 井桁いげたwell curb consisting of wooden beams…
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
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side桁 beam · 木
vs術 art · 朮In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · héng
Same form: 桁 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 桁 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 桁 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin héng 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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