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漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife

配: distribute, spouse

Also: exile, rationing

JLPT N310 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met

酉 carries the meaning · 己 is drawn in

10 strokes
  • Bronze · Western Zhou
  • Today

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

Two readings, and the words that use each

ハイhai · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 配達するはいたつするdeliver
  • 配慮するはいりょするconsider, be considerate
  • 心配するしんぱいするworry
  • 支配するしはいするrule [v.t.]
  • 配当金はいとうきんshare (money)
  • 配偶者はいぐうしゃspouse
  • 気配けはいindication

くばるkubaru · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 配るくばるdistribute

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Print sheet Present
成り立ち

Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Ideogrammic compound (會意)酉 alcohol vessel + 卩 kneeling person

Source: Wiktionary, 配 (rev. 92201983), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Kneeling person (己) + wine vessel (酉). Originally referred to a person serving "wine" from a "vessel" to others—"distributing" the drink fairly at a feast.”
From the 酉 bird of the west story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
酉

Also built on bird of the west (酉)

All 13
己

Also built on self (己)

All 12

Also read ハイ

10 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
配 distribute · 己
vs酎 sake · 寸
配 has 己 where 酎 has 寸.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · pèi

Same form: 配 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
配 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
配 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin pèi 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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