Meaning & readings
many, frequent, much
On’yomi タ
Kun’yomi おお.い、まさ.に、まさ.る
Origin
This character shows the same component twice — the symbol for "evening" or "dusk" stacked on top of itself. By doubling the image, the character expresses the idea of abundance or multiplicity: just as dusk arrives repeatedly each day, this doubled form suggests things happening many times or existing in large quantity. The more of something you show, the more you have, so repeating the visual element creates the sense of "many" or "much."
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 6
- Kangxi radical
- 36
- Grade
- Grade 2 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #139 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 4
- Unicode
- U+0591A