Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food

織: weave, fabric

JLPT N118 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met

糸 carries the meaning · 戠 gives the sound

18 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Today

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

Five readings, and the words that use each

ショクshoku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 染織せんしょくweaving and dyeing
  • 紡織ぼうしょくspinning and weaving
  • 織機しょっきloom, weaving machine

シキshiki · on'yomi

  • 組織そしきorganization, structure

おるoru · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 織るおるweave

おりori · kun'yomi

  • 織り目おりめtexture

おりori · kun'yomi

  • 織物おりものtextile, fabric
  • 毛織けおりwoolen fabric, woolen cloth

Also read -おり, -おり, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)糸 silk (meaning) + 戠 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 織 (rev. 93443972), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Thread (糸) + sound/mark (戠). The rhythmic "sound" of the loom as it interlaces countless "threads" to create a beautiful, finished "fabric."”
From the 糸 thread story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
糸

Also built on thread (糸)

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戠

Also built on 戠

織 takes the 戠 family's reading, ショク (shoku).

Also read ショク

11 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read シキ

4 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
織 weave · 糸
vs職 post · 耳
織 has 糸 where 職 has 耳.
In ChineseSimplified 织 · traditional, as in Japanese · zhī

Japan keeps the traditional form 織; mainland China simplifies it to 织.

Simplified
织 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
織 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin zhī 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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