漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
漢: Sino-, China
JLPT N413 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
- 氵water(meaning)
- 𦰩(sound)
氵 carries the meaning · 𦰩 gives the sound
13 strokes
Bronze · Spring and Autumn Today
Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
カンkan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 漢字かんじChinese characters
- 漢語かんごSino-Japanese word
- 漢和辞典かんわじてんcharacter dictionary
- 熱血漢ねっけつかんhot-blooded person
- 漢方かんぽうkampō
- 漢文かんぶんChinese classical writing; Chinese classics
- 痴漢ちかんmolester; groper; masher
- 漢和かんわChina and Japan
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · 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 汉 · traditional, as in Japanese · hàn
Japan keeps the traditional form 漢; mainland China simplifies it to 汉.
- Simplified
- 汉 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 漢 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin hàn 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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