Kanji Kaisen

字の旅3,000 years in four forms

Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE甲1193

Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

部首Radical · in Human Body & People

口

口 mouth, opening

くち kuchi · as a side part くちへん kuchihen

3 strokesRadical of 75 kanjiPart of 109

Your ink in 口0% painted · 0 of 75 familiar

Origin · sourced

Pictogram象形

Resembles an open mouth.

Source: Wiktionary, 口 (rev. 93606013), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Open your mouth wide and what do you see? A simple, sturdy square! This character represents not just the part of our body that tastes and talks, but any entrance in the world—from a doorway to the mouth of a river. It is the gateway of communication and nourishment.”

Where it sits in a kanji

Relates to speech, eating, openings, or the number of people (mouths to feed) or items

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育つ

What it grows into

Built from 口, with sourced origins
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Every kanji with 口 as its radical

Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

All 75 kanji

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