Meaning & readings
sound, noise
On’yomi オン、イン、-ノン
Kun’yomi おと、ね
Nanori お、と
Origin
This character combines two parts to represent sound. The top part (立, meaning to stand or position) suggests something rising or emanating, while the bottom part (日, a square representing the mouth or an opening) evokes the mouth as the source of sound. Together, they picture how sound originates from a person's mouth and travels outward into space. Over time, the character came to represent sound and noise more generally, not just vocal sound.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 9
- Kangxi radical
- 180
- Grade
- Grade 1 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #491 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 3
- Unicode
- U+097F3