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漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

案: plan, suggestion

Also: draft, ponder, fear, proposition, idea, expectation, worry, table, bench

JLPT N110 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met

木 carries the meaning · 安 gives the sound

10 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

アンan · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 案あんplan, draft [n.]
  • 案外あんがいunexpectedly
  • 案の定あんのじょうsure enough
  • 名案めいあんgood idea
  • 法案ほうあんbill (law)
  • 議案ぎあんlegislative bill
  • 答案用紙とうあんようしexam answer sheet
  • 案内するあんないするguide [v.t.]
  • 立案するりつあんするdraft [v.t.]
  • 考案するこうあんするplan, devise, contrive
  • 提案するていあんするpropose

Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.

  • 案じる/ずるあんじる/ずるbe anxious, devise a plan

Also read つくえ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)木 (meaning) + 安 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 案 (rev. 93434053), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Roof (宀) + woman + tree (木). Originally suggested a "desk" (tree) inside a "house" where one sits to think and create a "plan."”
From the 宀 roof story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
安

Also built on relax (安)

案 takes the 安 family's reading, アン (an).

木

Also built on tree (木)

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Also read アン

6 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
案 plan · 木
vs晏 late · 日
案 has 木 where 晏 has 日.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · àn

Same form: 案 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
案 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
案 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin àn 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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