漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
等: etc., and so forth
Also: class (first), quality, equal, similar
JLPT N312 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
竹 carries the meaning · 寺 gives the sound
12 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
トウtou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 等級とうきゅうgrade, class
- 等号とうごうan equal sign
- 一等いっとうfirst class, first rank
- 劣等感れっとうかんinferiority complex
- 対等なたいとうなequivalent
- 上等なじょうとうなsuperior, first class
- 均等なきんとうなequal, uniform, even
- 平等なびょうどうなequal, impartial
- 二等分するにとうぶんするbisect
ひとしいhitoshii · kun'yomi · on its own
- 等しいひとしいequal, similar, equivalent
Also read など, -ら, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Under the bamboo canopy! This radical brings the practicality and craftsmanship of bamboo to the head of many kanji.”
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等 etc. · 寺
vs符 token · 付In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · děng
Same form: 等 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 等 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 等 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin děng 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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