漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
貿: trade, exchange
JLPT N212 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
貝 carries the meaning · 卯 gives the sound
12 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ボウbou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 貿易ぼうえきtrade
- 貿易業ぼうえきぎょうtrading business
- 貿易風ぼうえきふうtrade wind
- 保護貿易ほごぼうえきprotective trade
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 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
卯
Also built on sign of the hare or rabbit (卯)
貿 takes the 卯 family's reading, ボウ (bou).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side貿 trade · 卯
vs貧 poverty · 分In ChineseSimplified 贸 · traditional, as in Japanese · mào
Japan keeps the traditional form 貿; mainland China simplifies it to 贸.
- Simplified
- 贸 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 貿 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin mào 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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