漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
類: sort, kind
Also: variety, class, genus
JLPT N318 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
頁 carries the meaning · 米 and 大 are drawn in
18 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
ルイrui · on'yomi · in compounds
- 類型るいけいtype, pattern
- 類語るいごsynonym
- 類人猿るいじんえんanthropoid
- 種類しゅるいvariety, kind, type, category
- 人類じんるいmankind, humanity
- 同類どうるいthe same kind, accomplice
- 衣類いるいclothes, clothing, garments
- 親類しんるいrelative, kin
- 哺乳類ほにゅうるいmammal, mammalian
- 類似するるいじするsimilar to [v.i.]
- 分類するぶんるいするclassify
Also read たぐい, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 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
Also read ルイ
3 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side類 sort · 米 + 大
vs頰 cheeks · 夾In ChineseSimplified 类 · traditional, as in Japanese · lèi
Japan keeps the traditional form 類; mainland China simplifies it to 类.
- Simplified
- 类 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 類 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin lèi 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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