漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
致: doth, do
Also: send, forward, cause, exert, incur, engage
攵 carries the meaning · 至 carries meaning and sound
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
チchi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 一致いっちagreement; accord; correspondence
- 招致しょうちinvitation; summons
- 誘致ゆうちattraction; lure; invitation
- 合致がっちagreement; concurrence; conformance
- 致死ちしlethal; fatal
- 雅致がちartistry; good taste; elegance
- 拉致らちtaking captive; carrying away; kidnapping
いたすitasu · kun'yomi · on its own
- お願い致しますおねがいいたしますplease
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)至 (sound) + 攴, as 攵 (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 致 (rev. 92757347), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Arrive (至) + strike/action (攵). To take a specific "action" that "causes" a certain result to "arrive" or manifest in the world.”
Connections
The 至 sound family doesn't share one reading.
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by sideIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zhì
Same form: 致 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 致 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 致 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhì most common reading
False friend. In simplified Chinese, 致 also stands for 緻 (fine (i.e. not coarse)), which Japanese writes as a separate kanji.
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.