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貸: lend

JLPT N412 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met

貝 carries the meaning · 代 gives the sound

12 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Four readings, and the words that use each

タイtai · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 賃貸ちんたいlease
  • 貸与するたいよするloan, lend

かすkasu · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 貸すかすlend

かし-kashi- · kun'yomi

  • 貸し出すかしだすlend
  • 貸し切りかしきりreservation

かし-kashi- · kun'yomi

  • 貸家かしやhouse for rent

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
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
貸 lend · 代
vs賊 burglar · 戎
貸 has 代 where 賊 has 戎.
In ChineseSimplified 贷 · traditional, as in Japanese · dài

Japan keeps the traditional form 貸; mainland China simplifies it to 贷.

Simplified
贷 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
貸 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin dài 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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