字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE前8.7.1 (商)
Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Tools & Weapons
斤
斤 axe
おのづくり onozukuri
4 strokesRadical of 5 kanjiPart of 14
Your ink in 斤0% painted · 0 of 5 familiar
Origin · sourced
Pictogram象形
An axe.
Source: Wiktionary, 斤 (rev. 92542040), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Chop! Imagine a heavy axe swinging through the air to split a log. This radical is the symbol of force, separation, and the mastery of raw materials. When you see it on the right side of a kanji, think of cutting, weighing (as axes were used as standard weights), and the creation of something "new" from the old.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates chopping, cutting, separation, weighing (units of weight), or the creation of something through forceful action.
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 斤, with sourced origins
- 断severanceダン · たつ
𢇍 + 斤
Ideogrammic compound · Wiktionary, 斷, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 新newシン · あたらしい
辛sound + 斤
To chop wood. Original form of 薪 (“firewood”).
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 斤 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