Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife

融: dissolve, melt

JLPT N116 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

鬲 carries the meaning · 虫 carries meaning and sound

16 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

ユウyuu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 金融きんゆうfinance; financing; credit transacting
  • 融資ゆうしfinancing; loan
  • 融和ゆうわharmony; reconciliation
  • 融通ゆうずうlending (money, commodities, etc.); finance
  • 融合ゆうごうagglutination; adhesion; fusion
  • 核融合かくゆうごうnuclear fusion
  • 投融資とうゆうしinvestment and lending
  • 金融庁きんゆうちょうFinancial Services Agency; FSA

Also read とける, とかす, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)鬲 cauldron (meaning) + 蟲 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 融 (rev. 93443975), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“A wriggly creature moves through the grass! The top part is the head, and the body curves below.”
More in the 虫 insect story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
鬲

Also built on 鬲

虫

Also built on insect (虫)

All 15

The 虫 sound family doesn't share one reading.

Also read ユウ

26 kanji share this on'yomiAll 26
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · róng

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

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

Pinyin róng 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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