Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife

貯: savings, store

Also: lay in, keep, wear mustache

JLPT N212 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met

貝 carries the meaning · 宁 gives the sound

12 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

チョcho · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 貯水池ちょすいちreservoir
  • 預貯金よちょきんdeposits and savings
  • 貯金するちょきんするsave money, deposit money
  • 貯蓄するちょちくするsave (up money)
  • 貯蔵するちょぞうするstore, preserve
  • 貯金ちょきん
  • 貯蓄ちょちくsavings
  • 郵貯ゆうちょpostal (post-office) savings (deposit)

Also read ためる, たくわえる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)貝 shellfish (meaning) + 宁 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 貯 (rev. 93141487), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Shell/money (貝) + stop/stay (宁). To keep your "money" in one specific place so it "stays" safe—representing the act of saving for the future.”
From the 貝 shell story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
貝

Also built on shell (貝)

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Also read チョ

4 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
貯 savings · 貝 + 宁
vs頂 place on the head · 丁 + 頁
貯 has 貝 + 宁 where 頂 has 丁 + 頁.
In ChineseSimplified 贮 · traditional, as in Japanese · zhù

Japan keeps the traditional form 貯; mainland China simplifies it to 贮.

Simplified
贮 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
貯 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin zhù 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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