漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
残: remainder, leftover
Also: balance
- 歹death(meaning)
- 戋(sound)
歹 carries the meaning · 戋 gives the sound
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
ザンzan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 残念なざんねんなunfortunate, disappointing
- 残酷なざんこくなcruel
- 残業ざんぎょうovertime (work)
- 残高ざんだか(bank) balance
- 残雪ざんせつlingering snow
のこるnokoru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 残るのこるremain, be left [v.i.]
のこすnokosu · kun'yomi
- 残すのこすleave (behind), reserve [v.t.]
Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.
- 名残なごりremains, traces
Also read サン, そこなう, のこり, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)歹 vicious, bones (meaning) + 戔 (sound)
To viciously harm, injure.
Source: Wiktionary, 殘 (rev. 93449080), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Death (歹) + two/level (戔/二). It originally related to the "remains" on a battlefield after a conflict—now used for what "remains" or is left over in any situation.”
Connections
Also read ザン
3 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by sideIn ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 殘 · cán
Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 残. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 殘.
- Simplified
- 残 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 殘 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin cán most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.