漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
租: tariff, crop tax
Also: borrowing
JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
禾 carries the meaning · 且 gives the sound
10 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ソso · on'yomi · in compounds
- 租税そぜいtaxes; taxation
- 租界そかい(foreign) concession (in China); settlement
- 租そrice tax (ritsuryō system); rice levy
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The harvest is ready! Imagine a field of golden rice bowing its head in the autumn breeze.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
且
Also built on moreover (且)
租 takes the 且 family's reading, ソ (so).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side租 tariff · 禾
vs査 investigate · 木In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zū
Same form: 租 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 租 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 租 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zū 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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