Meaning & readings

ride, board, get on, place, spread, 10**44, record, publish

On’yomi サイ
Kun’yomi の.せる、の.る
Nanori とし、のり

Origin

This character combines the idea of a vehicle with something being placed or supported. The component in the middle represents a cart or vehicle, which is the core meaning. The components around it suggest the action of loading something onto or placing it into that vehicle. Over time, this visual idea of putting things on a vehicle expanded to mean "ride" or "board" more broadly, and eventually came to represent the act of carrying or bearing something, whether physically or figuratively like printing words on a page.

AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).

13 strokes

Components

  • 𢦏 meaning part enclosure
  • radical kamaec
  • 𢦏 meaning part enclosure

Common words

  • 記載 きさい mention (in a document); record
  • 掲載 けいさい publication (e.g. of an article in a newspaper); carrying (e.g. a story)
  • 積載 せきさい loading; carrying
  • 搭載 とうさい loading (on a ship); equipping (an aircraft, car, etc.) with
  • 満載 まんさい full load; being fully loaded (with)
  • 連載 れんさい serialization; serialisation
  • 登載 とうさい running (an article); carrying
  • 載る のる to be placed on; to be set on

Reference

Strokes
13
Kangxi radical
159
Grade
Jōyō (secondary school)
Frequency rank
#825 (newspapers)
Former JLPT
level 1
Unicode
U+08F09