漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
馨: fragrant, balmy
Also: favourable
JLPT N120 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met
- 殸(form)
- 香fragrance(meaning)
香 carries the meaning · 殸 is drawn in
20 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ケイkei · on'yomi · in compounds
- 馨香けいこうfragrance; perfume; aroma
- 素馨そけいSpanish jasmine (Jasminum grandiflorum)
Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.
- 馨しいかんばしいsweet-smelling; fragrant; aromatic
Also read キョウ, かおる, かおり, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)殸 (sound) + 香 sweet (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 馨 (rev. 92716868), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Fragrance (香) + sounding stone (殸). A "fragrance" that is so clean and powerful it seems to "resound" through the air like the ring of a mountain bell.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · xīn
Same form: 馨 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 馨 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 馨 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xīn 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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