漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
構: posture, stance
Also: appearance, build, set up
JLPT N314 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
- 木tree(meaning)
- 冓(sound)
木 carries the meaning · 冓 gives the sound
14 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 構造こうぞうstructure [n.]
- 構図こうずcomposition (of a painting)
- 構内こうないcampus, premises
- 構成するこうせいするcompose
- 構想するこうそうするplot [v.t.]
- 結構なけっこうなwonderful, well enough
かまえるkamaeru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 構えるかまえるhold, have
かまうkamau · kun'yomi
- 構うかまうbe concerned about [v.t.]
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)木 wood (meaning) + 冓 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 構 (rev. 94063541), 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.”
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構 posture · 木
vs溝 gutter · 氵In ChineseSimplified 构 · traditional, as in Japanese · gòu
Japan keeps the traditional form 構; mainland China simplifies it to 构.
- Simplified
- 构 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 構 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin gòu 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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