漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
確: assurance, firm
Also: tight, hard, solid, confirm, clear, evident
JLPT N315 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
- 石stone(meaning)
- 寉(sound)
石 carries the meaning · 寉 gives the sound
15 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
カクkaku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 確率かくりつprobability
- 正確なせいかくなaccurate, exact
- 明確なめいかくなclear
- 確実なかくじつなcertain
- 確認するかくにんするconfirm
- 確保するかくほするguarantee, ensure
- 確定するかくていするbe settled
- 確信するかくしんするbelieve firmly, be sure
たしかめるtashikameru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 確かめるたしかめるcheck, ascertain
Also read コウ, たしか, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)石 rock (meaning) + 隺 (sound)
Rock-solid, as certain as a rock.
Source: Wiktionary, 確 (rev. 93647892), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine walking along a steep cliff and discovering a solid, square stone lying at the bottom. This is the essence of hardness and durability.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
寉
Also built on 寉
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side確 assurance · 寉
vs礁 reef · 焦In ChineseSimplified 确 · traditional, as in Japanese · què
Japan keeps the traditional form 確; mainland China simplifies it to 确.
- Simplified
- 确 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 確 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin què 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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