Meaning & readings
blood
On’yomi ケツ
Kun’yomi ち
Origin
This character appears to be a simple picture of blood. The strokes form a shape that represents a drop or pool of blood, which is why the character came to mean blood itself. Over time, the pictographic drawing became more abstract and stylized into the modern form you see today, but it still carries the meaning of the original image.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Pictographic or simple.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (血).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 6
- Kangxi radical
- 143
- Grade
- Grade 3 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #832 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+08840