字の旅2,200 years in two forms
Small seal · QinQin · 221 BCE
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Action & Movement
廴
廴 long stride, stretch
えんにょう ennyou
3 strokesRadical of 3 kanjiPart of 3
Your ink in 廴0% painted · 0 of 3 familiar
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形) – a man (人) with one leg behind him, implying a stride/step. Unrelated to 乃.
Source: Wiktionary, 廴 (rev. 92548413), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Step out with a long, confident stride! This radical stretches under the kanji like a person reaching out their leg to cover as much ground as possible. It carries the concept of extension, duration, and the deliberate stretching of time or space toward a far-off goal.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates stretching, lengthening, extending a duration, or moving with long, formal strides
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 廴, with sourced origins
- 建buildケン · たてる
廴 + 聿
Originally, a pictogram (象形) – a hand (又) planting a pole (𰀁) into a base. The left component was originally written as ∟.
Ideogrammic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 廷courtsテイ
廴 + 𡈼sound
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 廴 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