Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

逮: apprehend, chase

JLPT N111 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

⻌ carries the meaning · 隶 gives the sound

11 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

タイtai · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 逮捕たいほ
  • 逮夜たいやeve of the anniversary of a person's death
  • 逮捕者たいほしゃarrestee; person arrested

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

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
逮 apprehend · ⻌
vs康 ease · 广
逮 has ⻌ where 康 has 广.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · dǎi

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

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

Pinyin dǎi 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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