漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
滋: nourishing, more & more
Also: be luxuriant, planting, turbidity
JLPT N112 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
- 氵water(meaning)
- 兹(sound)
氵 carries the meaning · 兹 gives the sound
12 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ジji · on'yomi · in compounds
- 滋養じようnourishment; nutrition
- 滋殖じしょくreproducing in large numbers; multiplying
- 滋味じみnutriment; wholesome; savoriness
Also read シ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
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滋 nourishing · 氵
vs慈 mercy · 心In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zī
Same form: 滋 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 滋 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 滋 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zī 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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