Kanji Kaisen

字の旅3,000 years in four forms

Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE甲3510 合6 賓組

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.

The oracle bone, bronze and seal stages show 心, not ⺖ itself.

部首Radical · in Human Body & People

⺖

⺖ heart, mind, spirit

りっしんべん risshinben

3 strokesRadical of 35 kanjiPart of 35

Your ink in ⺖0% painted · 0 of 35 familiar

Origin · sourced

Pictogram象形

A heart, now highly stylized.

Source: Wiktionary, 心 (rev. 93404553), the entry for the full form, CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Feel the beat! When the heart "stands up" on the left side of a kanji, it brings the intense energy of emotion and thought. It is the radical of how we feel—our joy, our hate, our busy minds, and our quiet feelings. When you see it, think of the pulse of your own spirit driving every action you take.”

Where it sits in a kanji

Indicates emotions, mental states, temperament, thoughts, feelings, and the inner workings of the human spirit.

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What it grows into

Built from ⺖, with sourced origins
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Every kanji with ⺖ as its radical

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

All 35 kanji

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