漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
賭: gamble, wager
Also: bet
N1 (our estimate)15 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
貝 carries the meaning · 者 is drawn in
16 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
トto · on'yomi · in compounds
- 賭博とばくgambling
かけるkakeru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 賭けかけbet; wager; stake
- 賭けるかけるto wager; to bet; to risk
Also read かけ, with no example words in our sources. Words: 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
者
Also built on someone (者)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side賭 gamble · 貝
vs箸 chopsticks · 竹In ChineseSimplified 赌 · traditional, as in Japanese · dǔ
Japan keeps the traditional form 賭; mainland China simplifies it to 赌.
- Simplified
- 赌 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 賭 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin dǔ 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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