漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
荷: baggage, shoulder-pole load
Also: bear (a burden), shoulder (a gun), load, cargo, freight
JLPT N210 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
艹 carries the meaning · 何 gives the sound
10 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
カka · on'yomi · in compounds
- 負荷ふかburden, load
- 荷担するかたんするassist, conspire
- 入荷するにゅうかする(shipment) arrive [v.i.]
- 出荷するしゅっかするship goods (business) [v.t.]
にni · kun'yomi · on its own
- 荷にload, cargo
- 荷物にもつluggage
- 荷造りにづくりpacking, crating
- 重荷おもにheavy load, heavy responsibility
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Grass growing on top! Like a green crown upon the earth, this radical sits above kanji related to flowers, herbs, and vegetation.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · hé
Same form: 荷 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 荷 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 荷 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin hé 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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