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 車 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.
Components
- 𢦏
- 車
- 𢦏
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
- Formation type
- Compound ideographic (combined meanings)
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #825 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+08F09