Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

適: suitable, occasional

Also: rare, qualified, capable

JLPT N314 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met

⻌ carries the meaning · 啇 gives the sound

14 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

テキteki · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 適量てきりょうproper quantity
  • 適性てきせいaptitude
  • 適齢期てきれいきmarriageable age
  • 適当なてきとうなfit, suitable, adequate
  • 適切なてきせつなpertinent, appropriate
  • 適度なてきどなmoderate
  • 適正なてきせいなreasonable, suitable
  • 最適なさいてきなoptimal, most suitable
  • 適するてきするfit, suit [v.i.]
  • 適用するてきようするapply
  • 適合するてきごうするsuit, adapted, conform [v.i.]
  • 適応するてきおうするadapt, accommodate [v.i.]

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

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“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.”
More in the 辶 road story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
啇

Also built on 啇

適 takes the 啇 family's reading, テキ (teki).

⻌

Also built on road (⻌)

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Also read テキ

7 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
適 suitable · ⻌
vs滴 drip · 氵
適 has ⻌ where 滴 has 氵.
In ChineseSimplified 适 · traditional, as in Japanese · shì, kuò

Japan keeps the traditional form 適; mainland China simplifies it to 适.

Simplified
适 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
適 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin shì, kuò most common readings

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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