Hanja Analyzer
挨

挨 — ae

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
밀칠 애
Romanization
ae
English
near, close by, next to, towards, against; to wait; to lean on
Mandarin
āi
Japanese on'yomi
アイ
Japanese kun'yomi
ひら.く
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#2,258 of 2,500
Strokes
10
Radical
手 (64, 7 residual)
Unicode
U+6328

Parts that make up 挨

  • 扌 손 수variant of 手 다섯 손가락을 편 손손으로 하는 동작
  • 矣 어조사 의 화살이 날아가 멎은 모양‘의·애’ 계열의 소리

How 挨 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 挨 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 手, 矣.

Japanese words with 挨

  • 挨拶あいさつ greeting; greetings; salutation
  • 挨拶状あいさつじょう greeting card
  • ご挨拶ごあいさつ greeting; a fine thing to say
  • 挨拶語あいさつご words of greeting
  • 挨拶文あいさつぶん greeting phrase (in letter, etc.); salutation
  • 不挨拶ぶあいさつ incivility; impoliteness
  • 挨拶回りあいさつまわり courtesy call; going around to say hello (or goodbye) to everybody; making the rounds
  • 一挨一拶いちあいいっさつ dialoging (with another Zen practitioner to ascertain their level of enlightenment)
  • 年頭挨拶ねんとうあいさつ New Year's greetings
  • 舞台挨拶ぶたいあいさつ on-stage speech by the director and cast on the opening day of a movie or play
  • 時候の挨拶じこうのあいさつ seasonal greeting; conventional opening phrase in a letter, appropriate to the season
  • 挨拶代わりあいさつがわり substitute for a proper greeting (e.g. gift)

Other hanja read “애”

Other hanja with radical 手

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