Meaning & readings
earnings, work, earn money
On’yomi カ
Kun’yomi かせ.ぐ
Origin
This character combines the grain radical 禾, which represents crops or agricultural work, with the component 家 that serves as a sound hint for the character's pronunciation. The grain radical suggests the idea of harvest and agricultural labor, while 家 contributes the sound "ka" to guide how the character should be pronounced. Together, the shape conveys the concept of working the fields to produce crops and earn one's livelihood, which is why the character means earnings or work.
Components
- 禾
- 家
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 15
- Kangxi radical
- 115
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1264 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+07A3C