Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

追: chase, drive away

Also: follow, pursue, meanwhile

JLPT N39 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met

⻌ carries the meaning · 𠂤 gives the sound

9 strokes
  • Bronze · Western Zhou
  • Today

Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

ツイtsui · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 追伸ついしんpostscript
  • 追求するついきゅうするinvestigate, pursue (goal)
  • 追放するついほうするexile [v.t.]
  • 追加するついかするadd
  • 追突するついとつするcollide

おうou · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 追うおうchase, pursue

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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成り立ち

Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)辵 movement, as 辶 (meaning) + 𠂤 (sound)

Moving after, pursuit.

Source: Wiktionary, 追 (rev. 92162951), CC BY-SA 4.0

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.”
More in the 辶 road story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
𠂤

Also built on 𠂤

⻌

Also built on road (⻌)

All 54

Also read ツイ

4 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
追 chase · ⻌
vs阜 hill · 十
追 has ⻌ where 阜 has 十.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zhuī

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

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

Pinyin zhuī 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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