Meaning & readings
display, offer, present, send, exhibit
On’yomi テイ
Origin
This character combines the mouth radical 口 with 王 as a sound hint. The mouth component suggests the idea of expressing or uttering something, which led to meanings like "display" and "present." The 王 component below doesn't add meaning—it simply indicates roughly how the character should be pronounced. Together, these parts create a character that represents the act of showing or offering something, often through speech or formal presentation.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 7
- Kangxi radical
- 30
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1571 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+05448