漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
統: overall, relationship
Also: ruling, governing
JLPT N112 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
糸 carries the meaning · 充 gives the sound
12 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
トウtou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 統計とうけいstatistics
- 統率力とうそつりょくleadership, generalship
- 伝統でんとうtradition, convention
- 系統けいとうsystem, genealogy, phylogeny
- 血統けっとうlineage, pedigree, family line
- 大統領だいとうりょうpresident, head of state
- 正統派せいとうはorthodox school
- 統制するとうせいするregulate, control
- 統治するとうちするrule, reign, govern
- 統一するとういつするunite, consolidate
- 統合するとうごうするintegrate, unify, synthesize
すべるsuberu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 統べるすべるcontrol, supervise
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)糸 (meaning) + 充 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 統 (rev. 93443836), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Everything is connected! This radical represents the invisible threads that tie us together—our relationships, the fine "silk" of our words, and the intricate weaving of our personal histories.”
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統 overall · 充
vs総 general · 忩In ChineseSimplified 统 · traditional, as in Japanese · tǒng
Japan keeps the traditional form 統; mainland China simplifies it to 统.
- Simplified
- 统 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 統 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin tǒng 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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