漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
翁: venerable old man
JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
羽 carries the meaning · 公 gives the sound
10 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
オウou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 老翁ろうおうold man
おきなokina · kun'yomi · on its own
- 翁おきなold man; venerable gentleman
Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.
- 玄翁げんのうsledgehammer
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Spread your wings and fly! This radical represents the lightness of birds, the incredible speed of flight, and the delicate beauty of a single feather.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
公
Also built on public (公)
The 公 family reads ショウ (shou); 翁 is read オウ.
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side翁 venerable old man · 公
vs扇 fan · 戸In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · wēng
Same form: 翁 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 翁 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 翁 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin wēng 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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