漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
登: ascend, climb up
JLPT N312 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
癶 carries the meaning · 豆 is drawn in
12 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
トウtou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 登校するとうこうするattend school [v.i.]
- 登場するとうじょうするenter, appear [v.i.]
- 登録するとうろくするregister, record
トto · on'yomi
- 登山とざんmountain climbing
- 登城とじょうattendance at a castle
のぼるnoboru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 登るのぼるrise, ascend, climb
- 山登りやまのぼりmountain climbing
- 登り口のぼりぐちstarting point
Also read ドウ, ショウ, チョウ, あがる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)癶 left and right feet + 豆 pictogrammic of raised object; stepping stone
The two hands at the bottom disappeared, but they are retained in the conservative variant 𤼷.
Source: Wiktionary, 登 (rev. 92491083), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Outspread feet (癶) + ritual vessel/bean (豆). Imagine someone stepping firmly over a sacred vessel to reach the high "climb" of a mountain summit.”
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登 ascend · 癶
vs短 short · 矢In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · dēng
Same form: 登 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 登 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 登 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin dēng 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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