漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
運: carry, luck
Also: destiny, fate, lot, transport, progress, advance
JLPT N412 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
⻌ carries the meaning · 軍 gives the sound
12 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
ウンun · on'yomi · in compounds
- 運動するうんどうするexercise
- 運転するうんてんするoperate, drive
- 準備運動じゅんびうんどうwarming-up exercises
- 運賃うんちんfare
- 運動靴うんどうぐつsneakers
- 運命うんめいfate
- 好運こううんgood luck
- 不運ふうんbad luck
はこぶhakobu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 運ぶはこぶtransport
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)辵 motion (meaning) + 軍 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 運 (rev. 92163106), 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
Also read ウン
3 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side運 carry · ⻌
vs揮 brandish · 扌In ChineseSimplified 运 · traditional, as in Japanese · yùn
Japan keeps the traditional form 運; mainland China simplifies it to 运.
- Simplified
- 运 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 運 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yùn 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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