字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Time & Sequence
己
己 self
おのれ onore
3 strokesRadical of 5 kanjiPart of 13
Your ink in 己0% painted · 0 of 5 familiar
Origin · sourced
Pictogram象形
Silk rope for binding objects. Original form of 紀.
Source: Wiktionary, 己 (rev. 93813320), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Focus on yourself! Imagine a line that curves and bends until it points right back at you. This radical represents the individual, the ego, and the inner life of a person. When you see it, think of self-reflection, personal identity, and the things that belong uniquely to "me."”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates the self, one's own person, personal boundaries, or the concept of winding and coiling (reflecting its original rope pictograph).
一覧
Every kanji with 己 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 5 kanji