漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
編: compilation, knit
Also: plait, braid, twist, editing, completed poem, part of a book
JLPT N215 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
- 糸thread(meaning)
- 扁(sound)
糸 carries the meaning · 扁 gives the sound
15 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
ヘンhen · on'yomi · in compounds
- 編集者へんしゅうしゃeditor
- 長編ちょうへんfull-length novel or film
- 短編たんぺんshort story of film
- 予告編よこくへん(film) preview
- 編集するへんしゅうするedit
- 編曲するへんきょくするarrange (a musical piece)
- 編成するへんせいするform, organize, draw up
あむamu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 編むあむknit, braid, compile, edit
-あみ-ami · kun'yomi
- 編み物あみものknitting
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)糸 thread (meaning) + 扁 (sound)
To knit together a book (with thread).
Source: Wiktionary, 編 (rev. 93450670), 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
Also read ヘン
7 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSimplified 编 · traditional, as in Japanese · biān
Japan keeps the traditional form 編; mainland China simplifies it to 编.
- Simplified
- 编 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 編 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin biān 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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