字の旅3,000 years in three forms
Bronze · Western ZhouWestern Zhou · c. 1000 BCE史墻盤 (西周中期)
Bronze: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in States & Attributes
青
青 blue, green, young
あお ao
8 strokesRadical of 3 kanjiPart of 7
Your ink in 青0% painted · 0 of 3 familiar
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound形聲
Zhang (2022): Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 生 + phonetic 井.
Built from 生 (sound) + 井 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 青 (rev. 92199441), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine a young sprout shooting up from the earth next to a cool, deep well. It is the color of life itself—the green of spring and the bright blue of a cloudless sky. When you see this radical, think of youth, freshness, and the clarity of nature. It brings a sense of vitality and "newness" to any character.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Relates to the colors blue or green, the concept of youth and freshness, or the quality of being clear and pure.
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 青, with sourced origins
- 静quietセイ · しず
青sound + 爭sound
Note that 青 is also a compound with two phonetic components.
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, 靜, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 青 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 3 kanji