Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

盾: shield, escutcheon

Also: pretext

JLPT N19 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

目 carries the meaning · 厂 and 十 are drawn in

9 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Today

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

Two readings, and the words that use each

ジュンjun · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 矛盾むじゅんcontradiction; inconsistency

たてtate · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 盾たてshield; buckler; escutcheon
  • 後ろ盾うしろだてbacking; support; backer

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“See the world through this upright window! This is an eye standing tall.”
More in the 目 eye story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
厂

Also built on cliff (厂)

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十

Also built on ten (十)

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目

Also built on eye (目)

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盾 gives its sound to

The family reading is ジュン (jun). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read ジュン

15 kanji share this on'yomiAll 15

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
盾 shield · 厂
vs直 straightaway
盾 adds 厂.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · dùn

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

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

Pinyin dùn 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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