漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
滞: stagnate, be delayed
Also: overdue, arrears
JLPT N113 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
氵 carries the meaning · 帯 gives the sound
13 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
タイtai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 滞在たいざい
- 渋滞じゅうたい(traffic) congestion; traffic jam; gridlock
- 停滞ていたい
- 滞納たいのうfalling behind (with a payment)
- 延滞えんたい
- 滞在中たいざいちゅうduring a stay
Also read テイ, とどこおる, 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
In ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 滯 · zhì
Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 滞. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 滯.
- Simplified
- 滞 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 滯 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhì 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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