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漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife

雑: miscellaneous

JLPT N314 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met

九 carries the meaning · 隹 carries meaning and sound · 木 gives the sound

14 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

ザツzatsu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 雑誌ざっしjournal, magazine
  • 雑用ざつようerrands
  • 雑草ざっそうweed [n.]
  • 雑費ざっぴmiscellaneous expenses
  • 雑然としたざつぜんとしたcluttered, disorderly
  • 雑なざつなrough, crude
  • 雑多なざったなmiscellaneous, mixed
  • 複雑なふくざつなcomplex, complicated
  • 乱雑ならんざつなcluttered, rough
  • 混雑するこんざつするbe congested

ゾウzou · on'yomi

  • 雑木林ぞうきばやしgrove of mixed trees, copse
  • お雑煮おぞうにNew Year soup

Also read まじえる, まじる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Look at those folded wings and that sturdy little body! This is the bird that rests on the garden branches and chirps at dawn.”
More in the 隹 old bird story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
九

Also built on nine (九)

木

Also built on tree (木)

All 124
隹

Also built on old bird (隹)

All 21

Also read ゾウ

11 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
雑 miscellaneous · 九 + 木
vs稚 immature · 禾
雑 has 九 + 木 where 稚 has 禾.
In ChineseSimplified 杂 · traditional 雜 · zá

Three different forms: Japanese 雑, simplified 杂, traditional 雜.

Simplified
杂 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
雜 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin zá 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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