漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
罷: quit, stop
Also: leave, withdraw, go
JLPT N115 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
罒 carries the meaning · 能 is drawn in
15 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
ヒhi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 罷免ひめんdismissal (from a position); discharge
- 罷業ひぎょうstrike; walkout
まかり-makari- · kun'yomi · on its own
- 罷りまかりemphatic verbal prefix
Also read やめる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Watch from above! Imagine an eye turned on its side to peer down from the roof of a building.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
能
Also built on ability (能)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side罷 quit · 罒
vs態 attitude · 心In ChineseSimplified 罢 · traditional, as in Japanese · bà
Japan keeps the traditional form 罷; mainland China simplifies it to 罢.
- Simplified
- 罢 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 罷 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin bà 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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