漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
衡: equilibrium, measuring rod
Also: scale
JLPT N116 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
𩵋 carries the meaning · 行 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
コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 均衡きんこう
- 不均衡ふきんこうimbalance; lack of balance; lopsidedness
- 拡大均衡かくだいきんこうan expanded or expanding equilibrium
- 平衡へいこうbalance; equilibrium
- 合従連衡がっしょうれんこうalliance (of the Six Kingdoms against the…
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“You stand at a bustling crossroads! This radical represents motion, travel, and the way we "conduct" ourselves as we move through the world.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
衡 takes the 行 family's reading, コウ (kou).
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · héng
Same form: 衡 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 衡 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 衡 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin héng 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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