Meaning & readings
doth, do, send, forward, cause, exert, incur, engage
Origin
This character combines a sound hint on the left with an action marker on the right. The left component, 至, tells you roughly how to pronounce the character. The right component, 攵, is a simplified form of a hand holding a stick or rod—a common symbol for action or exertion. Together, the character depicts using force or effort to make something happen, which connects to meanings like "to do," "to send," or "to cause." The overall visual suggests purposeful action or the application of will to achieve an effect.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 至
- 攵
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 10
- Kangxi radical
- 133
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #870 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+081F4