Meaning & readings
look back, review, examine oneself, turn around
On’yomi コ
Kun’yomi かえり.みる
Nanori たか、み
Origin
This character combines two parts to mean "look back" or "examine." The right component, 頁, is a radical that relates to the head—think of it as a picture of a head with facial features. The left component, 雇, serves as a sound hint telling you roughly how to pronounce the character. Together, the combination of "head" with this sound component created a character for the idea of turning your head around to look back, or more broadly, reviewing and examining something carefully.
Components
- 雇
- 頁
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 21
- Kangxi radical
- 181
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1058 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+09867