Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

歴: curriculum, continuation

Also: passage of time

JLPT N214 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met

止 carries the meaning · 厤 gives the sound

14 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

レキreki · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 歴史れきしhistory
  • 学歴がくれきacademic background
  • 職歴しょくれきwork experience, work history
  • 経歴けいれきpersonal history, career
  • 病歴びょうれきclinical history
  • 遍歴へんれきtravels, pilgrimage, itinerancy
  • 履歴書りれきしょcurriculum vitae, resume
  • 逮捕歴たいほれきcriminal record
  • 歴然たるれきぜんたるplain, distinct, clear
  • 歴任するれきにんするhold posts consecutively [v.t.]

Also read レッキ, 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)厤 (sound) + 止 (meaning)

Source: Wiktionary, 歷 (rev. 91974922), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Cliff/building (厂) + stop = the stopping points of time as they pass through the great events and structures of human history.”
From the 止 stop story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
止

Also built on stop (止)

All 10

Also read レキ

1 kanji shares this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
歴 curriculum · 厤 + 止
vs暦 calendar · 厂 + 林 + 日
歴 has 厤 + 止 where 暦 has 厂 + 林 + 日.
In ChineseSimplified 历 · traditional 歷 · lì

Three different forms: Japanese 歴, simplified 历, traditional 歷.

Simplified
历 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
歷 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin lì 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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