Meaning & readings
old
On’yomi コ
Kun’yomi ふる.い、ふる-、-ふる.す
Nanori ふゆ
Origin
This character combines ten (十) above a mouth or container (口) to suggest something old. The image represents the passage of time—ten mouths or ten periods—accumulated together, which conveys the idea of age and antiquity. By stacking these elements, the character visually expresses how things become old through the accumulation of many passing periods or cycles.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 5
- Kangxi radical
- 30
- Grade
- Grade 2 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #509 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 4
- Unicode
- U+053E4