Meaning & readings
celebrate, congratulate
On’yomi シュク、シュウ
Kun’yomi いわ.う
Nanori のり、ほぎ、ゆわい
Origin
This character combines two ideas to express celebration. The left component, a variant of the symbol for shrine or ritual, indicates this involves religious or ceremonial action. The right component represents an older brother or senior person. Together, they suggest the formal, respectful blessing or congratulation that an elder would give during a ceremony or important occasion — the kind of verbal honor and good wishes associated with celebrations.
Components
- 礻
- 兄
Common words
Easily confused with
These look alike but are unrelated in meaning — check the stroke that differs.
Reference
- Strokes
- 9
- Kangxi radical
- 113
- Formation type
- Compound ideographic (combined meanings)
- Grade
- Grade 4 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #1184 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+0795D