漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons
軽: lightly, trifling
Also: unimportant
JLPT N212 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
- 車cart(meaning)
- 圣(sound)
車 carries the meaning · 圣 gives the sound
12 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
ケイkei · on'yomi · in compounds
- 軽傷けいしょうminor injury
- 軽食けいしょくlight meal
- 軽工業けいこうぎょうlight industry
- 軽率なけいそつなrash, impulsive, careless
- 軽薄なけいはくなfrivolous, superficial
- 軽快なけいかいなrhythmical, casual, light, nimble
- 軽視するけいしするdespise, slight, ignore, neglect
- 軽減するけいげんするlighten, lessen, abate [v.i.]
かるいkarui · kun'yomi · on its own
- 軽いかるいlight, minor, not serious
- 気軽なきがるなcheerful, buoyant, lighthearted
- 手軽なてがるなeasy, simple, informal, offhand
かろやかkaroyaka · kun'yomi
- 軽やかなかろやかなlight, airy, easy
Also read キョウ, キン, かろんじる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
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Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)車 carriage (meaning) + 巠 (sound)
The word originally referred to a kind of light carriage.
Source: Wiktionary, 輕 (rev. 92541933), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Cart radical + through/loom (圣) = an easy-to-handle cart that moves lightly and swiftly through the paths toward its destination.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side軽 lightly · 圣
vs載 ride · 𢦏In ChineseSimplified 轻 · traditional 輕 · qīng
Three different forms: Japanese 軽, simplified 轻, traditional 輕.
- Simplified
- 轻 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 輕 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin qīng 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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