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漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife

賀: congratulations, joy

JLPT N112 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met

貝 carries the meaning · 加 gives the sound

12 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ガga · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 賀正がしょうHappy New Year!
  • 年賀状ねんがじょうNew Year's card
  • 祝賀会しゅくがかいcelebration
  • 祝賀しゅくがcelebration; congratulations
  • 年賀ねんがNew Year's greetings; New Year's call
  • 謹賀新年きんがしんねんHappy New Year

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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.”
More in the 貝 shell story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
加

Also built on add (加)

貝

Also built on shell (貝)

All 38

Also read ガ

9 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
賀 congratulations · 加
vs貴 precious · 中
賀 has 加 where 貴 has 中.
In ChineseSimplified 贺 · traditional, as in Japanese · hè

Japan keeps the traditional form 賀; mainland China simplifies it to 贺.

Simplified
贺 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
賀 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin hè 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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