Meaning & readings
ascend, climb up
On’yomi トウ、ト、ドウ、ショウ、チョウ
Kun’yomi のぼ.る、あ.がる
Nanori たか、のぼし、のぼり、のり
Origin
The character 登 combines two elements to picture the act of climbing. The top part, 癶, represents two legs or feet, while the bottom part, 豆, originally depicted a stand or platform. Together they show a figure with legs positioned over a raised surface, capturing the idea of stepping up onto something higher. This visual of ascending onto an elevated object became the way to write the word for climbing or ascending.
Components
- 癶
- 豆
Common words
- 登記 とうき registry; registration
- 登校 とうこう attendance (at school); going to school
- 登山 とざん mountain climbing; mountaineering
- 登場 とうじょう entrance (on the stage); appearance (in a book, film, etc.)
- 登録 とうろく registration; accession
- 登用 とうよう appointment; assignment
- 登板 とうばん taking the mound; pitching a game
- 登頂 とうちょう climbing to the summit; summiting
Easily confused with
These look alike but are unrelated in meaning — check the stroke that differs.
Reference
- Strokes
- 12
- Kangxi radical
- 105
- Formation type
- Compound ideographic (combined meanings)
- Grade
- Grade 3 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #566 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+0767B