漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
犬: dog
JLPT N44 strokesGrade 1Your ink: 白 Not met
大 and 丶 are drawn in
4 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Shang Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ケンken · on'yomi · in compounds
- 番犬ばんけんwatchdog
- 盲導犬もうどうけんseeing eye dog
- 愛犬あいけんpet dog; beloved dog
いぬinu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 犬いぬdog
- 飼い犬かいいぬpet dog
- 子犬こいぬpuppy
Also read いぬ-, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
The side view of a dog.
Source: Wiktionary, 犬 (rev. 94100401), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The base kanji for the faithful animal, showing a creature with a distinct tail and an alert, upright posture.”
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 · quǎn
Same form: 犬 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 犬 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 犬 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin quǎn 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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