Meaning & readings
fruit, reward, carry out, achieve, complete, end, finish, succeed
On’yomi カ
Kun’yomi は.たす、はた.す、-は.たす、は.てる、-は.てる、は.て
Nanori み
Origin
This character combines a tree (木) with a field (田), picturing a fruit-bearing tree in cultivation. The visual idea of a tree producing fruit naturally led to the meaning "fruit," and from there extended to related concepts like "reward" — something you gain as a result, just as you harvest fruit from a tree. The sense of "complete" or "carry out" developed from the idea of a process reaching its natural end result, like fruit ripening to completion on a branch.
Common words
Easily confused with
These look alike but are unrelated in meaning — check the stroke that differs.
Reference
- Strokes
- 8
- Kangxi radical
- 75
- Formation type
- Compound ideographic (combined meanings)
- Grade
- Grade 4 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #258 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+0679C