字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE甲1769 (商)
Oracle bone and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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廾
廾 folded hands
にじゅうあし nijuuashi
3 strokesRadical of 3 kanjiPart of 12
Your ink in 廾0% painted · 0 of 3 familiar
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound會意
Both hands. Also written 𠬞.
Built from 𠂇 “left hand” + 又 “right hand”
Source: Wiktionary, 廾 (rev. 89710821), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Lift it up together! Imagine two hands reaching out to hold a heavy tray or join together in prayer. This radical is all about cooperation, ceremony, and the shared effort of the human experience. When you see it at the bottom of a kanji, think of an official action, a sacred offering, or the "joining" of forces to achieve a goal.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates cooperation, ritual offering, formal speech, or actions that require the use of both hands or a group effort.
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 廾, with sourced origins
- 弊abuseヘイ
敝sound + 廾
Emphatic form of 敝 – destroying something with both hands.
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 廾 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