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閲: review, inspection

Also: revision

JLPT N115 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

門 carries the meaning · 兌 is drawn in

15 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

エツetsu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 検閲けんえつ
  • 閲覧えつらんinspection; reading; perusal
  • 校閲こうえつrevision; proofreading
  • 観閲かんえつinspection (of troops)

Also read けみする, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Imagine the grand entrance to a temple or a fortress! Two heavy wooden doors stand ready to swing wide.”
More in the 門 gate story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
門

Also built on gate (門)

All 11
兌

Also built on 兌

閲 takes the 兌 family's reading, エツ (etsu).

Also read エツ

4 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
閲 review · 兌
vs閣 tower · 各
閲 has 兌 where 閣 has 各.
In ChineseSimplified 阅 · traditional, as in Japanese · yuè

Japan keeps the traditional form 閲; mainland China simplifies it to 阅.

Simplified
阅 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
閲 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin yuè 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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