漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
錦: brocade, fine dress
Also: honors
JLPT N116 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 金metal(meaning)
- 帛(form)
金 carries the meaning · 帛 is drawn in
16 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
にしきnishiki · kun'yomi · on its own
- 錦にしきbrocade
- 錦絵にしきえnishiki-e; multi-colour woodblock print
- 綾錦あやにしきtwill damask and brocade
Also read キン, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Dig deep for treasure! This radical represents the metals that form the backbone of our technology and the "gold" that has served as a global standard of value for centuries.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
帛
Also built on 帛
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side錦 brocade · 帛
vs錯 confused · 昔In ChineseSimplified 锦 · traditional, as in Japanese · jǐn
Japan keeps the traditional form 錦; mainland China simplifies it to 锦.
- Simplified
- 锦 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 錦 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jǐn 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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