Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

迪: edify, way

Also: path

JLPT N18 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met

⻌ carries the meaning · 由 is drawn in

8 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

テキteki · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 啓迪けいてきedification; enlightenment; guide

Also read みち, みちびく, すすむ, いたる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 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
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
迪 edify · 由
vs迫 urge · 白
迪 has 由 where 迫 has 白.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · dí

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

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

Pinyin dí 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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