漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
込: crowded, mixture
Also: in bulk, included
JLPT N35 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
⻌ carries the meaning · 入 is drawn in
5 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
-こむ-komu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 込むこむbe crowded, be thronged [v.i.]
- 乗り込むのりこむboard, embark on, get in
- 黙り込むだまりこむsink into silence
- 書き込むかきこむfill in (writing)
- 持ち込むもちこむbring in
- 払い込むはらいこむdeposit, make payment
こみkomi · kun'yomi
- 人込みひとごみcrowd of people
- 税込みぜいこみtax included
こめるkomeru · kun'yomi
- 込めるこめるinclude, put into [v.t.]
- 閉じ込めるとじこめるlock up, shut up, imprison
- 引っ込めるひっこめるdraw in, take in, retract
Also read こむ, -こみ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“This swooping radical is the winding road you walk upon! It curves under the rest of the kanji like a path being carved through a landscape.”
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込 crowded · 入
vs辺 environs · 刀In ChineseMade in Japan, no Chinese counterpart
込 is a kokuji, a kanji created in Japan. Chinese has no standard counterpart.
Unihan lists the reading yū for it.
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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