漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons
輸: transport, send
Also: be inferior
JLPT N216 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
- 車cart(meaning)
- 俞(sound)
車 carries the meaning · 俞 gives the sound
16 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
ユyu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 運輸会社うんゆがいしゃtransit company
- 輸送するゆそうするtransport [v.t.]
- 輸出するゆしゅつするexport
- 輸入するゆにゅうするimport
- 輸血するゆけつするgive a blood transfusion
- 密輸するみつゆするsmuggle
- 空輸するくうゆするtransport by air
Also read シュ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)車 (meaning) + 俞 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 輸 (rev. 92201903), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Cart radical + gather/hollow (兪) = the act of gathering goods into wagons and carts to be sent out across the borders to other lands.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read ユ
10 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side輸 transport · 車
vs諭 rebuke · 言In ChineseSimplified 输 · traditional, as in Japanese · shū
Japan keeps the traditional form 輸; mainland China simplifies it to 输.
- Simplified
- 输 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 輸 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin shū 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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