Meaning & readings
enroll, domiciliary register, membership
Origin
The character 籍 combines bamboo (竹) at the top with a sound hint (耤) below. Bamboo was traditionally used to make strips for writing records and registers in ancient China, so the bamboo radical indicates something related to written records or documentation. The bottom component provides a rough pronunciation guide for how the character sounds. Together, the shape came to represent official records like enrollment lists or household registers—documents that were historically written on bamboo strips.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 竹
- 耤
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
- 移籍 いせき transfer (of one's name into another family register)
- 戸籍 こせき family register
- 国籍 こくせき nationality; citizenship
- 在籍 ざいせき being enrolled (at a school); being registered
- 書籍 しょせき book; publication
- 除籍 じょせき removing a name
- 入籍 にゅうせき registering (a marriage, etc.) in the family register
- 本籍 ほんせき one's registered domicile (as recorded in the family register); one's legal domicile (as opposed to where one lives)
Reference
- Strokes
- 20
- Kangxi radical
- 118
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #907 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+07C4D