漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
避: evade, avoid
Also: avert, ward off, shirk, shun
JLPT N116 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 辟(sound)
- ⻌road(meaning)
⻌ carries the meaning · 辟 gives the sound
16 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
ヒhi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 避暑地ひしょちsummer resort
- 避雷針ひらいしんlightning rod
- 不可避なふかひなinevitable, inescapable
- 避難するひなんするseek refuge, find shelter
- 避妊するひにんするuse contraception
- 逃避するとうひするescape, evade
- 回避するかいひするavoid, evade
さけるsakeru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 避けるさけるavoid, ward off, avert
Also read よける, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 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
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side避 evade · ⻌
vs壁 wall · 土In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · bì
Same form: 避 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 避 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 避 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin bì 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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