Meaning & readings
regiment, party, company, squad
On’yomi タイ
Origin
The left component is the "mound" or "hill" radical, which here serves as a general classifier for things that are grouped or gathered together. The right side is a sound hint that tells you roughly how to pronounce the character — it does not contribute meaning on its own. By combining the idea of "gathering" with this sound component, the character came to mean a military unit or organized group of people, like a regiment or squad.
Components
- ⻖
- 1+4+豕
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 12
- Kangxi radical
- 170
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Grade 4 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #605 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+0968A