Meaning & readings
placement, put, set, deposit, leave behind, keep, employ, pawn
Origin
The character 置 combines a net or enclosure shape at the top with the sound component 直 at the bottom. The net or cage-like element suggests containing or holding something in a specific location, which connects to the meanings of placement and keeping. The component 直 at the bottom serves as a sound hint, telling you roughly how the character is pronounced, rather than contributing to the meaning. Together, these parts create a character that visually evokes the idea of putting or setting something down within a bounded space.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 罒
- 直
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 13
- Kangxi radical
- 122
- Grade
- Grade 4 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #277 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+07F6E