Meaning & readings
bequeath, leave behind, reserve
On’yomi イ、ユイ
Kun’yomi のこ.す
Origin
This character combines a movement or walking radical on the left, which suggests the idea of going away or being separated, with the component 貴 which serves as a sound hint for how the character is pronounced. The left side carries the core meaning—things left behind or reserved are things that have gone away from us or remain when we depart. By pairing this meaningful component with 貴 as a phonetic guide, the character came to represent the idea of bequeathing or leaving something behind for others.
Components
- 貴
- ⻌
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Easily confused with
These look alike but are unrelated in meaning — check the stroke that differs.
Reference
- Strokes
- 15
- Kangxi radical
- 162
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Grade 6 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #647 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+0907A