Meaning & readings
technique, art, craft, performance, acting, trick, stunt
Origin
The character 芸 combines a grass radical at the top with the element 云 below, creating a compound that originally referred to plants or cultivation. Over time, the meaning shifted to encompass the idea of nurturing or developing skills, which led to the sense of technique and craft. The character eventually came to represent all kinds of performance arts and skillful practices, since these too require careful development and cultivation just like plants. Today it covers everything from acting to acrobatics to any refined technique that has been deliberately grown and perfected.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Components
- 艹
- 云
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 7
- Kangxi radical
- 140
- Grade
- Grade 4 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #719 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+082B8