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瓦: tile, gram

N1 (our estimate)5 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
5 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

ガga · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 瓦解がかいcollapse; downfall

かわらkawara · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 瓦かわらtile (e.g. roof)
  • 丸瓦まるがわらconvex roof tile

Also read ぐらむ, 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

Pictogram (象形)

Fired earthenware pottery, or a tile.

Source: Wiktionary, 瓦 (rev. 92201102), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“The base kanji for a traditional ceramic roof tile, now commonly used to represent the metric "gram" in scientific and daily contexts.”
From the 瓦 tile story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
丶

Also built on dot (丶)

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Also read ガ

9 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · wǎ

Same form: 瓦 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
瓦 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
瓦 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin wǎ 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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