漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
遥: far off, distant
Also: long ago
JLPT N112 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met
- 䍃(form)
- ⻌road(meaning)
⻌ carries the meaning · 䍃 is drawn in
12 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
ヨウyou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 遥拝ようはいworshipping from afar
はるかharuka · kun'yomi · on its own
- 遥かはるかfar away; far off; far
- 遥か昔はるかむかしlong ago
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
䍃
Also built on 䍃
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side遥 far off · ⻌
vs揺 swing · 扌In ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 遙 · yáo
Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 遥. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 遙.
- Simplified
- 遥 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 遙 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yáo 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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