Meaning & readings
climax, arrive, proceed, reach, attain, result in
On’yomi シ
Kun’yomi いた.る
Nanori のぶ、のり、みち、よし
Origin
This character appears to combine two components to express the idea of reaching or arriving at a destination. The bottom part 土 represents earth or ground, a solid, concrete place. The top part 厶 represents something coming down toward that ground. Together, these suggest movement arriving at a definite point or place — the moment when something reaches its destination or climax. Over time, the meaning expanded from the physical sense of "arriving" to more abstract uses like "reaching a peak" or "resulting in," but the core idea of reaching a particular point remains central to the character's meaning.
Components
- 厶
- 土
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 6
- Kangxi radical
- 133
- Formation type
- Compound ideographic (combined meanings)
- Grade
- Grade 6 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #996 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+081F3