漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
項: paragraph, nape of neck
Also: clause, item, term (expression)
JLPT N112 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
頁 carries the meaning · 工 gives the sound
12 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 項目こうもくitem; heading; category
- 条項じょうこう
- 事項じこうmatter; item; facts
- 要項ようこうimportant points; main points; gist
- 禁止事項きんしじこうprohibited item; banned item
- 前項ぜんこうpreceding clause; previous paragraph
Also read うなじ, with no example words in our sources. Words: 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
項 takes the 工 family's reading, コウ (kou).
In ChineseSimplified 项 · traditional, as in Japanese · xiàng
Japan keeps the traditional form 項; mainland China simplifies it to 项.
- Simplified
- 项 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 項 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xiàng 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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