字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE甲630 (商)
Oracle bone, bronze and 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 小, not ⺍ itself.
部首Radical · in Communication & Thought
⺍
⺍ katakana Tsu
つ tsu
3 strokesRadical of 3 kanjiPart of 10
Your ink in ⺍0% painted · 0 of 3 familiar
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound會意
Built from 八 “to divide; to separate” + 丨 “small object”
Source: Wiktionary, 小 (rev. 93813458), the entry for the full form, CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Three sparks at the top! Imagine three small flickers of light or raindrops falling onto the roof of a house. This radical represents small, intense points of focus. When you see it at the very top of a character, think of the "sparks" of a strict discipline, the busy energy of management, or the simple "unit" that makes up a larger whole.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates small parts, intense focus, light rays/sparks, strictness, or provides the structural "crown" for characters related to management and simplicity.
一覧
Every kanji with ⺍ as its radical
Most used first