Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food

薪: fuel, firewood

Also: kindling

JLPT N116 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

艹 carries the meaning · 新 gives the sound

16 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

シンshin · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 薪炭しんたんwood and charcoal; fuel
  • 薪水しんすいfuel and water; firewood and water

まきmaki · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 薪まきpiece(s) of firewood (esp. chopped or…

Also read たきぎ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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.”
More in the 艹 grass story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
艹

Also built on grass (艹)

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Also read シン

38 kanji share this on'yomiAll 38
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · xīn

Same form: 薪 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
薪 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
薪 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin xīn 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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