漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
橋: bridge
JLPT N216 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
木 carries the meaning · 喬 gives the sound
16 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
キョウkyou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 歩道橋ほどうきょうpedestrian bridge
- 鉄橋てっきょうiron bridge
はしhashi · kun'yomi · on its own
- 橋はしbridge
- 吊り橋つりばしsuspension bridge
- 石橋いしばしstone bridge
- 新橋しんばしShinbashi (Tokyo)
- 船橋ふなばしpontoon bridge; floating bridge
- 桟橋さんばしwharf; bridge; jetty
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)木 wood (meaning) + 喬 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 橋 (rev. 93472806), 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橋 bridge · 木
vs矯 rectify · 矢In ChineseSimplified 桥 · traditional, as in Japanese · qiáo
Japan keeps the traditional form 橋; mainland China simplifies it to 桥.
- Simplified
- 桥 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 橋 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin qiáo 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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