漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
際: occasion, side
Also: edge, verge, dangerous, adventurous, indecent, time, when
JLPT N314 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
⻖ carries the meaning · 祭 gives the sound
14 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
サイsai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 実際にじっさいにin fact
- 国際的なこくさいてきなinternational
- 交際するこうさいするgo out with, date
きわkiwa · kun'yomi · on its own
- 際きわedge
-ぎわ-giwa · kun'yomi
- 間際まぎわon the point of
- 死に際しにぎわverge of death
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)阜, as 阝 (meaning) + 祭 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 際 (rev. 92691359), CC BY-SA 4.0
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
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side際 occasion · ⻖
vs察 guess · 宀In ChineseSimplified 际 · traditional, as in Japanese · jì
Japan keeps the traditional form 際; mainland China simplifies it to 际.
- Simplified
- 际 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 際 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jì 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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