漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
蓋: cover, lid
Also: flap
N1 (our estimate)13 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 艹grass(meaning)
- 盍(form)
艹 carries the meaning · 盍 is drawn in
13 strokes
Bronze · Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ガイgai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 円蓋えんがいcupola; dome; vault
ふたfuta · kun'yomi · on its own
- 蓋ふたcover; lid; cap
- 火蓋ひぶたapron of a gun
Also read カイ, コウ, けだし, おおう, かさ, かこう, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 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 ChineseSimplified 盖 · traditional, as in Japanese · gài
Japan keeps the traditional form 蓋; mainland China simplifies it to 盖.
- Simplified
- 盖 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 蓋 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin gài 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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