Meaning & readings
father
On’yomi フ
Kun’yomi ちち
Origin
This character is a simplified picture of a man, showing a person's head and shoulders with an arm extended. In ancient Chinese writing, the shape originally represented a male figure, and over time it became the standard way to write the word for father. The character's simple, direct form reflects how pictographic characters work: they look like what they mean.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Pictographic or simple.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (父).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 4
- Kangxi radical
- 88
- Grade
- Grade 2 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #646 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 4
- Unicode
- U+07236