Meaning & readings
degrees, occurrence, time, counter for occurrences, consider, attitude
Origin
This character appears to combine the idea of measuring or dividing. The left side shows a part of a building or structure, while the right side depicts a hand or tool used for measuring. Together, they suggest the action of measuring or marking divisions—the root meaning from which "degrees," "occurrences," and "times" all develop. When you measure something, you create intervals or degrees of separation; when you count occurrences, you're similarly dividing events into distinct units. The character's core sense of "measurement" naturally extended to mean a standard unit (degrees of temperature or angle), and then to counting how many times something happens.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (度).
Common words
Easily confused with
These look alike but are unrelated in meaning — check the stroke that differs.
Reference
- Strokes
- 9
- Kangxi radical
- 53
- Formation type
- Pictographic or simple
- Grade
- Grade 3 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #110 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 3
- Unicode
- U+05EA6