漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
討: chastise, attack
Also: defeat, destroy, conquer
JLPT N110 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
言 carries the meaning · 寸 gives the sound
10 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
トウtou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 討議するとうぎするdebate, discuss
- 討論するとうろんするdebate, discuss
- 討伐するとうばつするsubjugate, suppress
- 検討するけんとうするconsider, examine
うつutsu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 討つうつattack, strike, shoot, avenge
- 討ち死にうちじにdeath in battle
- 敵討ちかたきうちrevenge [n.]
- 不意討ちふいうちsurprise attack
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)肘 (sound) + 言 (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 討 (rev. 92201721), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Words flowing from the heart and into the world! The lines radiating upward show the power of the voice as it leaves the mouth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
The 寸 sound family doesn't share one reading.
In ChineseSimplified 讨 · traditional, as in Japanese · tǎo
Japan keeps the traditional form 討; mainland China simplifies it to 讨.
- Simplified
- 讨 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 討 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin tǎo 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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