漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
貴: precious, value
Also: prize, esteem, honor
JLPT N112 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
貝 carries the meaning · 中 is drawn in
12 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
キki · on'yomi · in compounds
- 貴族きぞくnoble, aristocrat
- 貴社きしゃyour company [respectful]
- 貴金属ききんぞくprecious metal
- 貴婦人きふじんnoblewoman
- 貴重品きちょうひんvaluables, treasures
- 貴重なきちょうなprecious, valuable
- 高貴なこうきなhigh class [adj.]
たっといtattoi · kun'yomi · on its own
- 貴いたっとい/とうといprecious, exalted, sacred [adj.]
たっとぶtattobu · kun'yomi
- 貴ぶたっとぶ/とうとぶvalue, prize, esteem [v.t.]
Also read とうとい, とうとぶ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
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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.”
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Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
中
Also built on in (中)
In ChineseSimplified 贵 · traditional, as in Japanese · guì
Japan keeps the traditional form 貴; mainland China simplifies it to 贵.
- Simplified
- 贵 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 貴 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin guì 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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