漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
阪: heights, slope
N1 (our estimate)7 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
⻖ carries the meaning · 反 is drawn in
7 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
ハンhan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 阪神はんしんOsaka-Kobe
- 京阪けいはんKyoto and Osaka; Kyoto-Osaka area
さかsaka · kun'yomi · on its own
- 大阪おおさか
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Climb high! This radical represents the natural landscape of mounds, hills, and the protective physical barriers they provide for human settlements.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
反
Also built on anti- (反)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side阪 heights · ⻖
vs坂 slope · 土In ChineseSimplified 坂 · traditional, as in Japanese · bǎn
Japan keeps the traditional form 阪; mainland China simplifies it to 坂.
- Simplified
- 坂 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 阪 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin bǎn 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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