Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

遺: bequeath, leave behind

Also: reserve

JLPT N115 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met

⻌ carries the meaning · 貴 gives the sound

15 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

イi · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 遺産いさんinheritance, bequest
  • 遺族いぞくbereaved family
  • 遺骨いこつremains, ashes of deceased
  • 遺伝いでんhereditary, genetic [n.]
  • 遺品いひんarticles of the deceased
  • 遺憾ないかんなregrettable, unsatisfactory
  • 遺失物いしつぶつlost article
  • 後遺症こういしょうafter-effect (of illness)

ユイyui · on'yomi

  • 遺言ゆいごんwill, testament, last request

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

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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.”
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
貴

Also built on precious (貴)

The 貴 sound family doesn't share one reading.

⻌

Also built on road (⻌)

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Also read イ

31 kanji share this on'yomiAll 31

Also read ユイ

3 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
遺 bequeath · ⻌
vs潰 crush · 氵
遺 has ⻌ where 潰 has 氵.
In ChineseSimplified 遗 · traditional, as in Japanese · yí

Japan keeps the traditional form 遺; mainland China simplifies it to 遗.

Simplified
遗 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
遺 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin yí 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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