字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE前5.7.2 (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
弓
弓 bow (archery)
ゆみ yumi
3 strokesRadical of 12 kanjiPart of 10
Your ink in 弓0% painted · 0 of 12 familiar
Origin · sourced
Pictogram象形
A bow. Unrelated to 弗.
Source: Wiktionary, 弓 (rev. 93473994), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the curve of a great bow held steady by a master archer! This character represents the beauty of tension and the potential of energy waiting to be released. It is the root of kanji related to archery, stretching, and anything that bends without breaking.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates bows, archery, the act of bending or stretching, or the state of being under tension
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 弓, with sourced origins
- 引pullイン · ひく
弓 + 丿
Ideogrammic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 弘vastコウ · ひろい
弓sound + 口
Ideogrammic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 張counter for bows & stringed instrumentsチョウ · はる
弓 + 長sound
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 弓 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 12 kanji