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漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

異: uncommon, different

Also: queerness, strangeness, wonderful, curious, unusual

JLPT N111 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met

田 carries the meaning · 共 is drawn in

11 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

イi · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 異質いしつheterogeneous
  • 異国いこくforeign country
  • 異議いぎobjection
  • 異性いせいthe opposite sex
  • 異色いしょくunique
  • 異文化いぶんかforeign culture
  • 異常ないじょうなabnormal
  • 異様ないようなbizarre

ことなるkotonaru · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 異なることなるdiffer

Also read こと, け, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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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.”
More in the 田 rice paddy story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
田

Also built on rice paddy (田)

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共

Also built on together (共)

異 gives its sound to

Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read イ

31 kanji share this on'yomiAll 31

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
異 uncommon · 田
vs恭 respect · ⺗
異 has 田 where 恭 has ⺗.
In ChineseSimplified 异 · traditional, as in Japanese · yì

Japan keeps the traditional form 異; mainland China simplifies it to 异.

Simplified
异 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
異 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin yì 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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