Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

逸: deviate, idleness

Also: leisure, miss the mark, evade, elude, parry, diverge

JLPT N111 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

⻌ carries the meaning · 免 is drawn in

11 strokes

Three readings, and the words that use each

イツitsu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 逸脱いつだつdeviation; departure
  • 逸材いつざいoutstanding talent
  • 逸話いつわanecdote; story; episode
  • 逸品いっぴんexcellent article; fine item; rare beauty

それるsoreru · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 逸れるそれるto turn away; to bear off; to veer away

そらすsorasu · kun'yomi

  • 逸らすそらすto turn away (one's eyes, face, etc.)

Also read はぐれる, 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
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

Also read イツ

3 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
逸 deviate · ⻌
vs勉 exertion · 力
逸 has ⻌ where 勉 has 力.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yì

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

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

Pinyin yì 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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