漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
積: volume, product (x*y)
Also: acreage, contents, pile up, stack, load, amass
JLPT N316 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
禾 carries the meaning · 責 gives the sound
16 strokes
Four readings, and the words that use each
セキseki · on'yomi · in compounds
- 積雪せきせつfallen snow
- 面積めんせきarea, square measure
- 体積たいせきcapacity volume
- 容積ようせきcapacity volume
- 積極的なせっきょくてきなpositive, active, proactive
- 蓄積するちくせきするaccumulate, store
- 山積するさんせきするpile up, lie in a heap [v.i.]
つむtsumu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 積むつむpile, stack, load [v.t.]
-づみ-zumi · kun'yomi
- 山積みやまづみhuge mound, heap
つもるtsumoru · kun'yomi
- 積もるつもるpile up [v.i.]
- 見積もるみつもるestimate [v.t.]
Also read つもり, 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)禾 (meaning) + 責 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 積 (rev. 93449108), CC BY-SA 4.0
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
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side積 volume · 禾
vs漬 pickling · 氵In ChineseSimplified 积 · traditional, as in Japanese · jī
Japan keeps the traditional form 積; mainland China simplifies it to 积.
- Simplified
- 积 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 積 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jī 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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