Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

窓: window, pane

JLPT N311 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met

穴 carries the meaning · 忩 gives the sound

11 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

ソウsou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 車窓しゃそうcar window
  • 同窓会どうそうかいclass reunion
  • 同窓どうそうbeing a graduate of the same school

まどmado · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 窓まどwindow
  • 窓口まどぐちticket window
  • 窓際まどぎわ(at the) window

Also read ス, てんまど, けむだし, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Hole radical + spirit/heart = the opening in the wall where the house 'breathes' and looks out.”
From the 穴 hole story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
穴

Also built on hole (穴)

All 8
忩

Also built on 忩

窓 takes the 忩 family's reading, ソウ (sou).

Also read ソウ

56 kanji share this on'yomiAll 56

Also read ス

12 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
窓 window · 忩
vs窒 plug up · 至
窓 has 忩 where 窒 has 至.
In ChineseSimplified 窗 · traditional, as in Japanese · chuāng

Japan keeps the traditional form 窓; mainland China simplifies it to 窗.

Simplified
窗 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
窓 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin chuāng 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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