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委

委 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Origin of the character

形声。「女」+音符「禾」。「したがう」を意味する漢語｛委｝を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

committee, entrust to, leave to, devote, discard

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • イElem.
Kun (native)
  • ゆだ(ねる)Elem.
Nanori (used in names)
  • まかせ
Other languages
  • 拼音wei3
  • 拼音wei1
  • 한글wi
  • Hán-ViệtỦy
  • Hán-ViệtUy

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
8 strokes
Radical
子(こ)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 2
Unicode
U+59D4

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱禾女

Words using this kanji

  • 委員いいん団体から選挙などで選ばれて、相談や調査の事項を処理する役の人。committee member
  • 委員会いいんかい複数の委員から成る合議制の機関。committee, commission, board, panel
  • 委員長いいんちょう委員会や団体などを統括し、指揮する役。またはその人。 学級委員長または学級委員の略。chairperson (of a committee), chair, chairman, chairwoman
  • 委託いたく取引などにおいて自分の代わりを他人にしてもらうこと。entrusting (something to a person), consignment (of goods), putting in someone's charge, trust
  • 委任いにん信頼する人にてこと。entrusting, charge, delegation, authorization
  • 委嘱いしょく特定の仕事を他の人に頼んで任せること。commissioning, entrusting (with), request, appointment (to a position)
  • 委ねるゆだねる「ゆだねる」を参照。to entrust (a matter) to, to leave to, to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure), to yield to (e.g. anger)
  • 委任状いにんじょうcommission, proxy, power of attorney, authorization
  • 委任統治いにんとうち列強が国際連盟の委任の下に第一次世界大戦の敗戦国が持っていた植民地を統治したこと。mandate
  • 委いcommittee, commission, board, panel
  • 委曲いきょく詳細、委細であること。また、そのようなさま。details, circumstances
  • 委細いさい詳しい事情。 あらゆる事情。すべてのことがら。details, particulars, everything, every last detail
  • 委付いふabandonment (rights, property)
  • 委棄いき棄てたまま放っておくこと。 物や権利などを放棄して他人の自由にまかせること。waiving (a right), waiver, renunciation, abandonment
  • 委蛇いいまがりくねって続くこと。 ゆったり落ち着いていること。winding, meandering
  • 委譲いじょう他に譲り、任せること。transfer (of authority, power, etc.), delegation, devolution
  • 委託生いたくせいscholarship student sent by government office or business
  • 委託者いたくしゃconsignor
  • 委付者いふしゃabandoner (in securities, etc.)
  • 委嘱状いしょくじょうletter of appointment (to a position)

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

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Lookup codes

SKIP
2-5-3
Four Corner
2040.4
Spahn–Hadamitzky
5d3.2
Heisig
979
Nelson
3267