Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

点: spot, point

Also: mark, speck, decimal point

JLPT N39 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met

灬 carries the meaning · 占 gives the sound

9 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

テンten · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 点てんpoint, dot
  • 点線てんせんdotted line
  • 点字てんじBraille
  • 点数てんすうpoints, grade, score
  • 得点とくてんpoints, score
  • 同点どうてんtie, draw (sports)
  • 欠点けってんdefect [n.]
  • 焦点しょうてんfocus [n.]
  • 終点しゅうてんlast stop (e.g train)
  • 交差点こうさてんintersection
  • 点在するてんざいするbe dotted with
  • 点滅するてんめつするblink, turn on and off

Also read つける, つく, たてる, さす, とぼす, ともす, ぼち, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)黑 black (meaning) + 占 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 點 (rev. 93477959), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Divination (卜) + fire (灬). Imagine the small, precise marks (points) made on an oracle bone by the focused heat of the fire.”
From the 卜 divination story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
占

Also built on fortune-telling (占)

点 takes the 占 family's reading, テン (ten).

灬

Also built on fire (灬)

All 19

Also read テン

12 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
点 spot · 灬
vs店 store · 广
点 has 灬 where 店 has 广.
In ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 點 · diǎn

Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 点. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 點.

Simplified
点 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
點 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin diǎn 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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