漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
況: condition, situation
JLPT N28 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
氵 carries the meaning · 兄 gives the sound
8 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
キョウkyou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 状況じょうきょうstate of affairs, circumstances
- 戦況せんきょうprogress of a battle
- 近況きんきょうrecent situation
- 実況じっきょうreal situation, actual scene
- 好況こうきょうhealthy economy, prosperity
- 不況ふきょうrecession, depression, slump
- 盛況せいきょうsuccess, prosperity, flourishing
- 市況しきょうmarket conditions
Also read まして, いわんや, おもむき, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)水 river, as 氵 (meaning) + 兄 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 況 (rev. 93443903), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine three raindrops falling—that's sanzui! Whenever you see these three dots on the left side of a kanji, think of water, liquids, or anything that flows.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
兄
Also built on elder brother (兄)
況 takes the 兄 family's reading, キョウ (kyou).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side況 condition · 氵
vs克 overcome · 古In ChineseSimplified 况 · traditional, as in Japanese · kuàng
Japan keeps the traditional form 況; mainland China simplifies it to 况.
- Simplified
- 况 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 況 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin kuàng 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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