Meaning & readings
adhere, attach, refer to, append
On’yomi フ
Kun’yomi つ.ける、-つ.ける、-づ.ける、つ.け、つ.け-、-つ.け、-づ.け、-づけ、つ.く、-づ.く、つ.き、-つ.き、-つき、-づ.き、-づき
Nanori つけ
Origin
The character combines a person (the left component) with a measure of distance or closeness (the right component). The idea is of a person drawing something near or close, which captures the sense of attaching or adhering one thing to another. Over time this visual idea extended to mean appending or referring to something as well. The compound reflects the physical action of bringing things together or fastening them.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Components
- 亻
- 寸
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 5
- Kangxi radical
- 9
- Grade
- Grade 4 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #322 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+04ED8