Meaning & readings
transmit, go along, walk along, follow, report, communicate, legend, tradition
Origin
This character combines a person marker on the left with a sound component on the right. The left side (亻) is a shortened form of the character for person, used here to show this word relates to human action. The right side (云) is a sound hint that tells you roughly how to pronounce the character—it does not contribute to the meaning. The overall idea of "transmit" or "communicate" comes from the concept of a person passing something along, relaying information or objects from one place or person to another, which is a natural human activity that fits with the person marker.
Components
- 亻
- 云
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 6
- Kangxi radical
- 9
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Grade 4 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #416 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+04F1D