漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
腸: intestines, guts
Also: bowels, viscera
JLPT N113 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
- 月meat(meaning)
- 昜(sound)
月 carries the meaning · 昜 gives the sound
13 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
チョウchou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 腸ちょうguts, bowels, intestines
- 腸炎ちょうえんenteritis
- 胃腸いちょうstomach, intestines
- 大腸だいちょうcolon
- 小腸しょうちょうsmall intestine
- 盲腸もうちょうappendix, caecum
- 断腸の思いだんちょうのおもいheartrending grief
Also read はらわた, わた, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)肉 body (meaning) + 昜 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 腸 (rev. 93436827), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Flesh (月) + sun/bright (陽 variant). This refers to the long, winding "flesh" of the digestive system that processes the nourishment you take in.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
昜
Also built on 昜
The 昜 family reads ヨウ (you); 腸 is read チョウ.
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side腸 intestines · 月
vs場 location · 土In ChineseSimplified 肠 · traditional, as in Japanese · cháng
Japan keeps the traditional form 腸; mainland China simplifies it to 肠.
- Simplified
- 肠 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 腸 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin cháng 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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