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漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

題: topic, subject

JLPT N418 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met

頁 carries the meaning · 是 gives the sound

18 strokes
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Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

ダイdai · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 問題もんだいproblem, question
  • 宿題しゅくだいhomework
  • 題名だいめいtitle
  • 主題しゅだいtheme
  • 話題わだいtopic
  • 課題かだいsubject, problem, assignment
  • 出題するしゅつだいするpropose a question

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)是 (sound) + 頁 head (meaning)

“forehead”.

Source: Wiktionary, 題 (rev. 92529780), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Correct (是) + head (頁 simplified to 首) = the 'head' or main point that must be correctly understood or solved.”
From the 首 neck story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
是

Also built on just so (是)

題 takes the 是 family's reading, ダイ (dai).

頁

Also built on head (頁)

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Also read ダイ

11 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
題 topic · 是
vs顕 appear · 显
題 has 是 where 顕 has 显.
In ChineseSimplified 题 · traditional, as in Japanese · tí

Japan keeps the traditional form 題; mainland China simplifies it to 题.

Simplified
题 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
題 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin tí 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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