漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
熊: bear
JLPT N114 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
灬 carries the meaning · 能 is drawn in
14 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
くまkuma · kun'yomi · on its own
- 熊くまbear (any mammal of family Ursidae)
- 熊手くまでrake; fork; bamboo rake
- 穴熊あなぐまbadger
Also read ユウ, 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
“These four dots are flames under a cooking pot! When you see 灬 at the bottom of a kanji, imagine a fire heating something from below.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
能
Also built on ability (能)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side熊 bear · 灬
vs態 attitude · 心In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · xióng
Same form: 熊 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 熊 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 熊 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xióng 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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