Meaning & readings
don, arrive, wear, counter for suits of clothing
On’yomi チャク、ジャク
Kun’yomi き.る、き.せる、つ.く、つ.ける
Origin
This character appears to combine the idea of clothing with the concept of arrival or attachment. The upper part represents a garment or robe, while the lower component suggests something coming into place or sticking. Over time, the visual representation evolved to show cloth or fabric being put on the body, which naturally led to meanings like "wear" and "put on clothes." The sense of "arrive" likely developed from the idea of something reaching or attaching to a destination, similar to how clothing arrives on your body when you put it on.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (着).
Common words
Easily confused with
These look alike but are unrelated in meaning — check the stroke that differs.
Reference
- Strokes
- 12
- Kangxi radical
- 109
- Formation type
- Pictographic or simple
- Grade
- Grade 3 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #376 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 3
- Unicode
- U+07740