漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
至: climax, arrive
Also: proceed, reach, attain, result in
厶 and 土 are drawn in
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
シshi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 至急しきゅうurgent, pressing
- 至上しじょうsupremacy
- 至難しなんmost difficult, next to impossible
- 至極しごくvery, extremely, exceedingly
- 夏至げしsummer solstice
- 冬至とうじwinter solstice
- 必至ひっしinevitable, desperate
いたるitaru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 至るいたるcome, arrive
- 至る所いたるところeverywhere
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogram (指事)
An arrow stuck into the ground. Some folk etymologies interpret the whole pictogram as an eagle catching a prey.
Source: Wiktionary, 至 (rev. 93443701), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The base kanji for "reaching" a specific point in space or time, or the "peak" intensity of an emotion or situation.”
Connections
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by sideIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zhì
Same form: 至 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 至 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 至 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhì most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.