漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons
航: navigate, sail
Also: cruise, fly
JLPT N210 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
- 舟boat(meaning)
- 亢(sound)
舟 carries the meaning · 亢 gives the sound
10 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 航海こうかいvoyage, cruise, navigation
- 航路こうろcourse, route, run
- 航空機こうくうきaircraft
- 航空券こうくうけんair ticket
- 航空便こうくうびんair mail
- 航空会社こうくうがいしゃairline company
- 運航するうんこうするrun (between), ply (the waters)
- 難航するなんこうするmake a difficult passage
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成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)舟 boat (meaning) + 亢 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 航 (rev. 94593579), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Boat (舟) + stretch/high (亢). The action of a boat stretching its path across the wide ocean—navigating toward a distant shore.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side航 navigate · 亢
vs般 carrier · 殳In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · háng
Same form: 航 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 航 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 航 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin háng 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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