漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
署: signature, govt office
Also: police station
JLPT N213 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
罒 carries the meaning · 者 gives the sound
13 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ショsho · on'yomi · in compounds
- 署長しょちょうchief, head
- 署員しょいんstaff member, station employee
- 部署ぶしょone's post, one's station
- 警察署けいさつしょpolice station
- 消防署しょうぼうしょfire station
- 税務署ぜいむしょtax office
- 署名するしょめいするsign (a document)
- 代署するだいしょするsign for another
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成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)网 net, as 罒 (meaning) + 者 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 署 (rev. 93449127), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Eye crown (罒) + person + sun/field. A "station" where "people" work under a "watchful eye" to serve the public—like a police or fire station.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
者
Also built on someone (者)
署 takes the 者 family's reading, ショ (sho).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side署 signature · 罒
vs暑 sultry · 日In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · shǔ
Same form: 署 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 署 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 署 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin shǔ 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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