Kanji Kaisen

字の旅3,000 years in four forms

Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE鐵116.1 合15420

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

部首Radical · in Action & Movement

用

用 to use, utility, business

もちいる mochiiru

5 strokesRadical of 2 kanjiPart of 3

Your ink in 用0% painted · 0 of 2 familiar

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound形聲

Formed by adding a handle to 同.

Source: Wiktionary, 用 (rev. 92201105), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Put it to good work! This radical represents the tools, methods, and procedures we use to solve problems and get things done efficiently. When you see it, think of high productivity, important business affairs, and the sheer practical utility of an object or an idea. It brings a sense of focused activity, functional purpose, and the industrious spirit of work to any character it joins.”
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Every kanji with 用 as its radical

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

All 2 kanji