漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
疑: doubt, distrust
Also: be suspicious, question
JLPT N314 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
- 矣(sound)
- マ(meaning)
- 疋bolt of cloth(meaning)
マ and 疋 carry the meaning · 矣 gives the sound
14 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ギgi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 疑問ぎもんquestion, doubt [n.]
- 疑問詞ぎもんしinterrogative word
- 疑惑ぎわくsuspicion
- 容疑者ようぎしゃsuspect [n.]
- 半信半疑はんしんはんぎhalf in doubt
- 質疑応答しつぎおうとうquestion and answer session
うたがうutagau · kun'yomi · on its own
- 疑ううたがうdoubt, suspect [v.t.]
- 疑わしいうたがわしいquestionable, suspicious
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)
Source: Wiktionary, 疑 (rev. 93450924), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Bolt/foot (疋) + arrow (矢) + mountain (山). Imagine someone standing on a mountain peak, looking at a distant arrow and "measuring" their uncertain thoughts in a state of deep doubt.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
矣
Also built on 矣
マ
Also built on マ
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yí
Same form: 疑 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 疑 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 疑 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yí 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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