Meaning & readings
put up (a notice), put up, hoist, display, hang out, publish, describe
Origin
This character combines a hand radical on the left, which shows it's about a manual action, with a sound hint on the right that suggests the pronunciation "kei." The hand radical indicates the basic idea of doing something with your hands, while the right component narrows down how the character should be pronounced. Together, they create a character meaning to hold something up or display it, which makes sense because holding something aloft with your hands is how you put up a notice or hoist a flag.
Components
- 扌
- 曷
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Easily confused with
These look alike but are unrelated in meaning — check the stroke that differs.
Reference
- Strokes
- 11
- Kangxi radical
- 64
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #899 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+063B2