漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
港: harbor
JLPT N312 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
- 氵water(meaning)
- 巷(sound)
氵 carries the meaning · 巷 gives the sound
12 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 港湾こうわんharbors and ports
- 港内こうないinside a harbor
- 空港くうこうairport
- 漁港ぎょこうfishing harbor
- 貿易港ぼうえきこうtrade port
- 寄港するきこうするcall at port
みなとminato · kun'yomi · on its own
- 港みなとharbor, port
- 港町みなとまちport city
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)水 river; water (meaning) + 巷 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 港 (rev. 92200955), 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
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side港 harbor · 氵 + 巷
vs巽 southeast · 己 + 共In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · gǎng
Same form: 港 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 港 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 港 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin gǎng 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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