Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

須: ought, by all means

Also: necessarily

JLPT N112 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

彡 and 頁 carry the meaning

12 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Today

Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

スsu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 必須ひっすindispensable; essential; requisite
  • 必須条件ひっすじょうけんessential condition
  • 急須きゅうすsmall teapot

Also read シュ, すべからく, すべし, ひげ, まつ, もちいる, もとめる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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.”
More in the 頁 head story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
彡

Also built on hair-style (彡)

All 13
頁

Also built on head (頁)

All 24

Also read ス

12 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read シュ

27 kanji share this on'yomiAll 27

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
須 ought · 彡
vs順 obey · 川
須 has 彡 where 順 has 川.
In ChineseSimplified 须 · traditional, as in Japanese · xū

Japan keeps the traditional form 須; mainland China simplifies it to 须.

Simplified
须 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
須 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin xū 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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