字の旅2,200 years in two forms
Small seal · QinQin · 221 BCE說文‧舛部
Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in States & Attributes
舛 opposite feet, conflict
まいあし maiashi
6 strokesRadical of 2 kanjiPart of 2
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound會意
Ideogrammic compound (會意): 夊 + 𡕒 (second character roughly ヰ) – two feet facing in the same direction.
Built from 夊 + 𡕒
Source: Wiktionary, 舛 (rev. 93444491), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Walking in opposite directions! This radical captures the dynamic tension of a path that splits or two feet that simply won't move together. When you see it, think of contradictions, the complex coordination of dancing (where feet move in intricate, opposing patterns), and the physical act of being mismatched. It brings a sense of active tension and "opposing" energy to any character it joins.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates physical coordination (dancing), mistakes and conflicts (pointing the wrong way), or the state of being opposite or mismatched.
What it grows into
- 舞danceブ · まう
無sound + 舛
This character was coined to preserve the original meaning of 無, which is "dancing"; hence, the upper component also adds part of the meaning. A conservative variant is 𦨅.
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Every kanji with 舛 as its radical
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