漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
規: standard, measure
JLPT N311 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
見 carries the meaning · 夫 is drawn in
11 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
キki · on'yomi · in compounds
- 規則きそくregulation
- 規模きぼscale
- 新規しんきnovel, new
- 正規せいきregular
- 不規則なふきそくなirregular
- 規制するきせいするregulate
- 定規じょうぎ(measuring) ruler
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)夫 husband + 見 see
Originally a pictogram (象形): a cross-shaped measuring compass similar to 乂. The protoform also appears as the bottom component in the oracle bone script of 畫.
Source: Wiktionary, 規 (rev. 92922733), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Husband/man (夫) + see (見). A respected person who "sees" and clearly defines the "rules" and "standards" that must be followed to maintain order in a community.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
夫
Also built on husband (夫)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side規 standard · 夫 + 見
vs臭 stinking · 自 + 大In ChineseSimplified 规 · traditional, as in Japanese · guī
Japan keeps the traditional form 規; mainland China simplifies it to 规.
- Simplified
- 规 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 規 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin guī 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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