Meaning & readings
scroll, volume, book, part, roll up, wind up, tie, coil, counter for texts (or book scrolls)
On’yomi カン、ケン
Kun’yomi ま.く、まき、ま.き
Origin
This character combines a sound hint at the top with a meaning component below. The top part provides a rough pronunciation guide for how to say the character aloud. The bottom part, the radical 己 (self or coil), visually suggests something that winds or loops around itself—like a scroll being rolled up or a coil of rope. Together, the character pictures that curling, rolling action while the sound component anchors how speakers should pronounce the word for it.
Components
- 𠔉
- 己
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 9
- Kangxi radical
- 49
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Grade 6 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #944 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+05DFB