漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
演: performance, act
Also: play, render, stage
JLPT N314 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
氵 carries the meaning · 寅 gives the sound
14 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
エンen · on'yomi · in compounds
- 演劇えんげきplay, performance
- 演説えんぜつspeech, address,
- 講演こうえんlecture, address
- 主演俳優しゅえんはいゆうstar (of a play or film)
- 演じるえんじるperform, act
- 演技するえんぎするact, perform
- 演出するえんしゅつするdirect, produce, stage
- 演奏するえんそうするperform music
- 上演するじょうえんするpresent, project (a play)
- 共演するきょうえんするappear together, co-star
- 出演するしゅつえんするmake an appearance [v.i.]
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)水, as 氵 (meaning) + 寅 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 演 (rev. 91798580), 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
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yǎn
Same form: 演 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 演 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 演 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yǎn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
One click tells us. No sign-up.