Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons

輩: comrade, fellow

Also: people, companions

JLPT N115 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

車 carries the meaning · 非 gives the sound

15 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ハイhai · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 後輩こうはいjunior (at work or school)
  • 若輩じゃくはいyoung or inexperienced person
  • 吾輩わがはいI (nuance of arrogance)
  • 我が輩わがはいI (nuance of arrogance)
  • 先輩せんぱいsenior (at work or school)
  • 輩出はいしゅつproducing (people) in great numbers
  • 年輩ねんぱい(approximate) age; years

Also read -ばら, やから, やかい, ともがら, with no example words in our sources. 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

“Look down on the world's first machines! This character shows the wheels and the frame of an ancient wagon.”
More in the 車 cart story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
非

Also built on injustice (非)

All 7

The 非 family reads ヒ (hi); 輩 is read ハイ.

車

Also built on cart (車)

All 19

Also read ハイ

10 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSimplified 辈 · traditional, as in Japanese · bèi

Japan keeps the traditional form 輩; mainland China simplifies it to 辈.

Simplified
辈 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
輩 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin bèi 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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