漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
送: escort, send
JLPT N49 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
- 关(form)
- ⻌road(meaning)
⻌ carries the meaning · 关 is drawn in
9 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
ソウsou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 発送するはっそうするship [v.t.]
- 返送するへんそうするsend back
- 郵送するゆうそうするmail [v.t.]
- 放送するほうそうするbroadcast [v.t.]
- 送金するそうきんするsend money
- 送料そうりょうshipping fee
- 送別会そうべつかいfarewell party
おくるokuru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 送るおくるsend, spend time
- 送り仮名おくりがなconjugational ending in kana
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)辵 to walk, as 辶 (meaning) + 灷 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 送 (rev. 92929500), 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.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
关
Also built on 关
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side送 escort · ⻌
vs咲 blossom · 口In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · sòng
Same form: 送 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 送 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 送 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin sòng 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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