漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
頃: time, about
Also: toward
N2 (our estimate)11 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
匕 and 頁 carry the meaning
11 strokes
Bronze · Zhou Today
Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
ケイkei · on'yomi · in compounds
- 頃日けいじつrecently
ころkoro · kun'yomi · on its own
- 頃ころapproximately (time)
ごろgoro · kun'yomi
- 三時頃さんじごろabout 3 o'clock
- この頃このごろrecently
- 日頃ひごろusual; normal; everyday
- 近頃ちかごろlately; recently; nowadays
- 今頃いまごろabout this time; about now
- 年頃としごろapproximate age; apparent age
Also read キョウ, しばらく, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Face the world! This radical represents everything that happens from the neck up—thinking, seeing, breathing, and the very identity of a person.”
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頃 time · 匕
vs頂 place on the head · 丁In ChineseSimplified 顷 · traditional, as in Japanese · qǐng
Japan keeps the traditional form 頃; mainland China simplifies it to 顷.
- Simplified
- 顷 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 頃 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin qǐng 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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