漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
違: difference, differ
JLPT N313 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 韋(sound)
- ⻌road(meaning)
⻌ carries the meaning · 韋 gives the sound
13 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Four readings, and the words that use each
イi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 違憲いけんunconstitutionality
- 違和感いわかんfeeling that something is wrong
- 違法ないほうなillegal
- 違反するいはんするviolate, transgress
- 相違するそういするbe different, vary, disagree
ちがうchigau · kun'yomi · on its own
- 違うちがうdiffer
- 食い違うくいちがうclash, run counter to
ちがいchigai · kun'yomi
- 間違いまちがいmistake [n.]
- 勘違いかんちがいmisunderstanding, wrong guess
ちがえるchigaeru · kun'yomi
- 間違えるまちがえるerr, make a mistake
Also read -ちがえる, たがう, たがえる, 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) + 韋 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 違 (rev. 93443948), 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
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side違 difference · ⻌
vs偉 admirable · 亻In ChineseSimplified 违 · traditional, as in Japanese · wéi
Japan keeps the traditional form 違; mainland China simplifies it to 违.
- Simplified
- 违 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 違 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin wéi 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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