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籍: enroll, domiciliary register

Also: membership

JLPT N220 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

竹 carries the meaning · 耤 gives the sound

20 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

セキseki · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 国籍こくせきnationality
  • 戸籍こせきcensus, family register
  • 本籍ほんせきlegal residence
  • 書籍しょせきbook, publication
  • 在籍するざいせきするbe on (school) register
  • 移籍するいせきするtransfer (official registration)
  • 入籍するにゅうせきするenter name in family register
  • 除籍するじょせきするremove from the register

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

成り立ち

Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)竹 bamboo, as 𥫗 (meaning) + 耤 (sound)

The (bamboo) census books.

Source: Wiktionary, 籍 (rev. 93443888), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Bamboo (艹 variant) + plow (耒) + old. Documents related to the "plowed" land owned by "old" families—used for property "registers" and census records.”
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jí

Same form: 籍 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
籍 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
籍 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin jí 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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