Meaning & readings
decorate, ornament, adorn, embellish
Origin
This character appears to combine the idea of adornment with movement or action. The left side contains a component related to wings or feathers, which evokes the image of birds displaying their plumage to make themselves look attractive. The right side suggests action or doing something. Together, the character captures the visual essence of making oneself or something else beautiful by adding decorative elements, much like how a bird adorns itself with its feathers. Over time, this concrete image of feathered ornamentation broadened to mean decoration and embellishment in general.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Pictographic or simple.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (飾).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 13
- Kangxi radical
- 184
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1193 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+098FE