Meaning & readings
meeting, meet, party, association, interview, join
Origin
This character combines a picture of a person (人) with an element meaning "say" or "speak" (云), creating the idea of people coming together to talk or communicate. When people gather and speak together, that's essentially what a meeting is — multiple individuals joining to exchange words and ideas. Over time, the character broadened to mean any kind of coming together or joining, whether for a formal assembly, a casual encounter, or an organized group. The visual composition makes sense: people plus communication equals meeting.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Components
- 人
- 云
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 6
- Kangxi radical
- 9
- Grade
- Grade 2 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #4 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 4
- Unicode
- U+04F1A