Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

畿: capital, suburbs of capital

N1 (our estimate)15 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

幺 and 田 carry the meaning · 戈 is drawn in

15 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

キki · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 近畿きんきKinki (region around Osaka, Kyoto, Nara)
  • 畿内きないKinai (the five provinces in the immediate…
  • 五畿ごきthe Five Home Provinces (Yamato, Yamashiro…

Also read みやこ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 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.”
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jī

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

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

Pinyin jī 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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