漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
遣: dispatch, despatch
Also: send, give, donate, do, undertake
JLPT N113 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
⻌ carries the meaning · 中 is drawn in
13 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ケンken · on'yomi · in compounds
- 派遣はけん
- 先遣せんけんsending ahead
-づかい-zukai · kun'yomi · on its own
- 小遣いこづかいpocket money; spending money; pin money
- 気遣いきづかいconsideration; concern; fear
- 無駄遣いむだづかいwaste (of money, time, etc.); squandering
- 言葉遣いことばづかいspeech; expression; wording
- 仮名遣いかなづかいkana orthography; syllabary spelling
- お小遣いおこづかいpocket money; spending money; pin money
Also read つかう, -つかい, つかわす, やる, 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
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
中
Also built on in (中)
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · qiǎn
Same form: 遣 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 遣 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 遣 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin qiǎn 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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