Meaning & readings
spread, pave, sit, promulgate
Origin
This character combines a sound hint on the left with an action marker on the right. The left component, 旉, provides a rough pronunciation guide for how to say the character. The right component, 攵, is a small radical that indicates the character relates to actions or movements — essentially marking it as a verb or action word. Together, they create a character meaning to spread, pave, or lay something out, which describes a physical action of arranging or extending something across a surface.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 旉
- 攵
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
- 座敷 ざしき tatami room; tatami mat room
- 倉敷 くらしき Kurashiki (city)
- 敷く しく to spread out (e.g. a futon); to lay out
- 敷居 しきい threshold (esp. one with grooves for sliding doors); sill
- 敷金 しききん (security) deposit; caution money
- 敷設 ふせつ laying (a railroad, pipes, naval mines, etc.); construction
- 敷地 しきち site; plot
- 屋敷 やしき residence; estate
Reference
- Strokes
- 15
- Kangxi radical
- 66
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1212 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+06577