Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

達: accomplished, reach

Also: arrive, attain

JLPT N312 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met

羊 and ⻌ carry the meaning · 土 gives the sound

12 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

タツtatsu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 到達するとうたつするreach, arrive
  • 発達するはったつするdevelop
  • 調達するちょうたつするsupply
  • 配達するはいたつするdeliver
  • 速達そくたつexpress delivery
  • 達するたっするreach

-たち-tachi · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 私達わたしたちwe
  • 子供達こどもたちchildren
  • 友達ともだちfriends

Also read ダ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

成り立ち

Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)辵, as 辶 (meaning) + 羍 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 達 (rev. 93763695), 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
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
達 accomplished · 土
vs遅 slow · 尸
達 has 土 where 遅 has 尸.
In ChineseSimplified 达 · traditional, as in Japanese · dá

Japan keeps the traditional form 達; mainland China simplifies it to 达.

Simplified
达 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
達 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin dá 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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