漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
透: transparent, permeate
Also: filter, penetrate
JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
⻌ carries the meaning · 秀 is drawn in
10 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
トウtou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 透明とうめいtransparent; clear
- 浸透しんとうpermeation (of thought, ideology, culture…
- 透析とうせきdialysis
- 不透明ふとうめいopaque; obscure; murky
- 透過とうかpenetration; permeation; transmission
すくsuku · kun'yomi · on its own
- 透き通るすきとおるto be transparent; to be see-through
Also read すかす, すける, とうる, とうす, 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
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
秀
Also built on excel (秀)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side透 transparent · 秀 + ⻌
vs秩 regularity · 禾 + 失In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · tòu
Same form: 透 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 透 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 透 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin tòu 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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