Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

迭: transfer, alternation

JLPT N18 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

⻌ carries the meaning · 失 gives the sound

8 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

テツtetsu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 更迭こうてつchange (of personnel)
  • 迭立てつりつalternate succession (e.g. to throne)

Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.

  • 迷迭香まんねんろうrosemary

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

Also read テツ

4 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
迭 transfer · ⻌
vs秩 regularity · 禾
迭 has ⻌ where 秩 has 禾.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · dié

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

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

Pinyin dié 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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