漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
脹: dilate, distend
Also: bulge, fill out, swell
JLPT N112 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met
月 carries the meaning · 長 gives the sound
12 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
チョウchou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 鼓脹こちょうflatulence; meteorism; tympanites
- 腫脹しゅちょうswelling
- 膨脹ぼうちょうexpansion; swelling; increase
Also read はれる, ふくらむ, ふくれる, 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
“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
脹 takes the 長 family's reading, チョウ (chou).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side脹 dilate · 月
vs張 counter for bows & stringed instruments · 弓In ChineseSimplified 胀 · traditional, as in Japanese · zhàng
Japan keeps the traditional form 脹; mainland China simplifies it to 胀.
- Simplified
- 胀 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 脹 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhàng 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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