漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
額: forehead, tablet
Also: plaque, framed picture, sum, amount, volume
JLPT N218 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
頁 carries the meaning · 客 gives the sound
18 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ガクgaku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 額がくpicture, amount, sum
- 額面がくめんface value
- 額縁がくぶちpicture frame
- 金額きんがくamount of money
- 総額そうがくsum total, total amount
- 差額さがくbalance, difference, margin
- 月額げつがくmonthly amount
- 多額たがくlarge amount of money
- 半額はんがくhalf off, half fare
- 生産額せいさんがくamount of production
ひたいhitai · kun'yomi · on its own
- 額ひたいforehead
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)客 (sound) + 頁 head (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 額 (rev. 92694928), CC BY-SA 4.0
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額 forehead · 客
vs頼 trust · 束In ChineseSimplified 额 · traditional, as in Japanese · é
Japan keeps the traditional form 額; mainland China simplifies it to 额.
- Simplified
- 额 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 額 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin é 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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