漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
鶴: crane, stork
JLPT N121 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 寉(form)
- 鳥bird(meaning)
鳥 carries the meaning · 寉 is drawn in
21 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
カクkaku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 鶴首かくしゅlooking forward to
つるtsuru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 鶴つるcrane (any bird of the family Gruidae…
- 折鶴おりづるpaper crane; origami crane
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)寉 (sound) + 鳥 (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 鶴 (rev. 92935339), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Bird radical + a high, rising element = the elegant, long-necked bird that stands tall in the marshes and flies toward the heavens.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
寉
Also built on 寉
In ChineseSimplified 鹤 · traditional, as in Japanese · hè
Japan keeps the traditional form 鶴; mainland China simplifies it to 鹤.
- Simplified
- 鹤 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 鶴 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin hè 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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