漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
胃: stomach, paunch
Also: crop, craw
JLPT N29 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
田 and 月 carry the meaning
9 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
イi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 胃いstomach
- 胃腸いちょうstomach & intestines
- 胃袋いぶくろstomach
- 胃炎いえんgastritis, gastric catarrh
- 胃癌いがんstomach cancer
- 胃下垂いかすいgastroptosis
- 胃潰瘍いかいようstomach ulcer
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成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“It looks like the moon, but it's actually muscle! When you see this "moon" on the left side of a character, don't think of the night sky—think of your own body.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · wèi
Same form: 胃 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 胃 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 胃 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin wèi 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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