漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
駅: station
JLPT N414 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
馬 carries the meaning · 尺 gives the sound
14 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
エキeki · on'yomi · in compounds
- 駅えきstation
- 駅前えきまえin front of the station
- 駅長えきちょうstation master
- 駅弁えきべん(boxed) lunch sold in stations
- 東京駅とうきょうえきTokyo station
- 駅伝えきでんlong-distance relay race
- 宿駅しゅくえきrelay station; post station; stage
- 駅員えきいん(train) station attendant; station employee
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)馬 horse (meaning) + 睪 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 驛 (rev. 93645294), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Horse (馬) + standard/ruler (尺). A "standard" place where "horses" were changed during a long journey—now the modern word for a train "station."”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
尺
Also built on shaku (尺)
The 尺 family reads シャク (shaku); 駅 is read エキ.
Also read エキ
6 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side駅 station · 尺
vs駄 burdensome · 太In ChineseSimplified 驿 · traditional 驛 · yì
Three different forms: Japanese 駅, simplified 驿, traditional 驛.
- Simplified
- 驿 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 驛 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yì 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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