漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
議: deliberation, consultation
Also: debate, consideration
JLPT N320 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
言 carries the meaning · 義 gives the sound
20 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
ギgi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 議会ぎかいcongress
- 議員ぎいんmember of congress
- 議長ぎちょうchairman
- 議題ぎだいtopic of discussion
- 議論ぎろんargument, discussion
- 会議かいぎmeeting, conference
- 異議いぎobjection, dissent
- 衆議院しゅうぎいんHouse of Representatives
- 参議院さんぎいんHouse of Councilors
- 不思議なふしぎなstrange, mysterious
- 論議するろんぎするargue, discuss
- 審議するしんぎするdiscuss a case (e.g. law)
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)言 talk (meaning) + 義 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 議 (rev. 92934622), 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
In ChineseSimplified 议 · traditional, as in Japanese · yì
Japan keeps the traditional form 議; mainland China simplifies it to 议.
- Simplified
- 议 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 議 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yì 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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