漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
貨: freight, goods
Also: property
JLPT N211 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
貝 carries the meaning · 化 gives the sound
11 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
カka · on'yomi · in compounds
- 貨幣かへいmoney, currency, coinage
- 貨物列車かもつれっしゃfreight train
- 外貨がいかforeign money
- 通貨つうかcurrency
- 硬貨こうかcoin [n.]
- 雑貨ざっかgeneral goods
- 金貨きんかgold coin
Also read たから, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Treasure the moment! This radical represents the very origins of commerce and the primal concept of wealth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 货 · traditional, as in Japanese · huò
Japan keeps the traditional form 貨; mainland China simplifies it to 货.
- Simplified
- 货 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 貨 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin huò 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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