漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
畏: fear, majestic
Also: graciously, be apprehensive
N1 (our estimate)9 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
田 carries the meaning · 一 is drawn in
9 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
イi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 畏敬いけいreverence; awe; respect
- 畏怖いふawe; fear; dread
かしこkashiko · kun'yomi · on its own
- 畏まりましたかしこまりましたcertainly!; very well; with pleasure
Also read おそれる, かしこまる, かしこし, 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
“The lifeblood of the village! Imagine a patchwork of green rice fields stretching across a fertile valley.”
繋がり
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畏 fear · 一
vs町 town · 丁In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · wèi
Same form: 畏 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 畏 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 畏 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin wèi 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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