漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
灰: ashes, puckery juice
Also: cremate
JLPT N26 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
厂 and 火 carry the meaning
6 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
カイkai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 灰白色かいはくしょくgrayish white
- 石灰せっかいlime, quicklime, caustic lime
はいhai · kun'yomi · on its own
- 灰はいash
- 灰皿はいざらashtray
- 灰色はいいろgrey, ashen
- 火山灰かざんばいvolcanic ash
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Watch your step! This radical represents the sheer, unyielding wall of a mountain.”
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灰 ashes · 厂
vs灯 lamp · 丁In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · huī
Same form: 灰 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 灰 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 灰 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin huī 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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