漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
紙: paper
JLPT N410 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
糸 carries the meaning · 氏 gives the sound
10 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
シshi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 白紙はくしwhite paper
- 用紙ようしblank form
- 表紙ひょうしfront cover
- 新聞紙しんぶんしnewspaper
かみkami · kun'yomi · on its own
- 紙かみpaper
- 手紙てがみletter
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)糸 silk (meaning) + 氏 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 紙 (rev. 92201341), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Thread (糸) + lineage (氏 variant). Represents "paper," which was originally made from leftover "threads" and used to record "family" lineages and official documents.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 纸 · traditional, as in Japanese · zhǐ
Japan keeps the traditional form 紙; mainland China simplifies it to 纸.
- Simplified
- 纸 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 紙 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhǐ 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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