漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
献: offering, counter for drinks
Also: present, offer
JLPT N113 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
犬 carries the meaning · 南 gives the sound
13 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
ケンken · on'yomi · in compounds
- 献金けんきんdonation; contribution; offering
- 貢献こうけんcontribution (furthering a goal or cause)
- 文献ぶんけんliterature; books (reference); document
- 献血けんけつblood donation
- 献花けんかflower offering; floral tribute
- 献上けんじょうpresenting (to)
コンkon · on'yomi
- 献立こんだてmenu; bill of fare
Also read たてまつる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)鬳 (sound) + 犬 dog (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 獻 (rev. 94589780), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“A pot/south (南) + a dog (犬). In ancient solemn rituals, a "dog" was sometimes "offered" to the ancestors or gods as a high-value sacrifice.”
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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献 offering · 犬
vs楠 camphor tree · 木In ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 獻 · xiàn
Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 献. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 獻.
- Simplified
- 献 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 獻 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xiàn 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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