漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
角: angle, corner
Also: square, horn, antlers
JLPT N27 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
7 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Shang Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
カクkaku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 角度かくどangle
- 三角さんかくtriangle
- 四角形しかくけいsquare
かどkado · kun'yomi · on its own
- 角かどcorner
- 曲り角まがりかどcorner, turning point
- 四つ角よつかどcrossroads
つのtsuno · kun'yomi
- 角つのhorn
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
A horn. A conservative version is 𧢲.
Source: Wiktionary, 角 (rev. 93647839), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The base kanji for a horn or a corner, used in geometry for "angles" and in daily life for the "corners" of a box or a street.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jiǎo
Same form: 角 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 角 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 角 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jiǎo 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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