漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
渉: ford, go cross
Also: transit, ferry, import, involve
JLPT N111 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
氵 carries the meaning · 歩 is drawn in
11 strokes
Bronze · Western Zhou Today
Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
ショウshou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 渉外部しょうがいぶpublic relations department
- 交渉するこうしょうするnegotiate, discuss
- 干渉するかんしょうするinterfere, intervene
- 交渉こうしょう
- 干渉かんしょう
- 渉外しょうがいpublic relations; client liaison
Also read わたる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)水 water + 步 walk
To wade across.
Source: Wiktionary, 涉 (rev. 83798610), 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
歩
Also built on walk (歩)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side渉 ford · 氵
vs捗 make progress · 扌In ChineseA Japanese form · Chinese writes 涉 · shè
渉 is a Japanese simplification. Chinese writes 涉 in both simplified and traditional script.
- Simplified
- 涉 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 涉 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin shè 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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