Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

趣: purport, gist

Also: elegance, interest, proceed to, tend, become

JLPT N115 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

走 carries the meaning · 取 gives the sound

15 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

シュshu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 趣味しゅみhobby, interest, tastes
  • 趣旨しゅしobject, goal
  • 趣向しゅこうplan, scheme
  • 趣意書しゅいしょprospectus

おもむきomomuki · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 趣おもむきgrace, refinement

Also read おもむく, with no example words in our sources. 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

“Pick up the pace! Imagine a runner speeding down a track, their feet barely touching the earth.”
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
取

Also built on take (取)

趣 takes the 取 family's reading, シュ (shu).

In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · qù

Same form: 趣 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
趣 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
趣 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin qù 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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