Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

術: art, technique

Also: skill, means, trick, resources, magic

JLPT N311 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met

行 carries the meaning · 朮 gives the sound

11 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ジュツjutsu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 技術ぎじゅつtechnology, skill
  • 美術びじゅつfine arts
  • 芸術げいじゅつfine arts
  • 手術しゅじゅつsurgical operation
  • 魔術まじゅつsorcery
  • 術語じゅつごtechnical term

Also read すべ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)行 street, path (meaning) + 朮 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 術 (rev. 92201679), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Crossroads (行) + glitiny/stickiness (朮). The "sticky" or specialized path one takes through the crossroads—the mastery of a specific skill or "art."”
From the 行 to go story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
行

Also built on to go (行)

All 5
朮

Also built on 朮

術 takes the 朮 family's reading, ジュツ (jutsu).

Also read ジュツ

1 kanji shares this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
術 art · 朮
vs桁 beam · 木
術 has 朮 where 桁 has 木.
In ChineseSimplified 术 · traditional, as in Japanese · shù

Japan keeps the traditional form 術; mainland China simplifies it to 术.

Simplified
术 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
術 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin shù 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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