漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
質: substance, quality
Also: matter, temperament
JLPT N415 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
貝 carries the meaning · 斤 is drawn in
15 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
シツshitsu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 質問するしつもんするinquire
- 本質ほんしつessence
- 体質たいしつ(physical) constitution
- 性質せいしつnature, personality
- 素質そしつqualities
- 特質とくしつcharacteristic
- 質素なしっそなsimple
シチshichi · on'yomi
- 質屋しちやpawnshop
- 人質ひとじちhostage
チchi · on'yomi
- 言質を取るげんちをとるkeep someone to a pledge
Also read たち, ただす, もと, わりふ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)斦 + 貝
Zhu Junsheng also interpret this as a phono-semantic compound (形聲), where he regards 斦 as an original form of 櫍.
Source: Wiktionary, 質 (rev. 93769539), CC BY-SA 4.0
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
Also read シツ
10 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSimplified 质 · traditional, as in Japanese · zhì
Japan keeps the traditional form 質; mainland China simplifies it to 质.
- Simplified
- 质 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 質 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhì 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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