漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
逝: departed, die
JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
⻌ carries the meaning · 折 gives the sound
10 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
セイsei · on'yomi · in compounds
- 逝去せいきょdeath; passing
- 急逝きゅうせいsudden death; unexpected death
- 長逝ちょうせいdeath; passing
Also read ゆく, いく, 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
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side逝 departed · ⻌
vs哲 philosophy · 口In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · shì
Same form: 逝 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 逝 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 逝 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin shì 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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