Meaning & readings
relax, cheap, low, quiet, rested, contented, peaceful
On’yomi アン
Kun’yomi やす.い、やす.まる、やす、やす.らか
Nanori あ、あす、あず、あっ、や
Origin
This character combines a roof or house (the component on top) with a woman (the component on bottom). In ancient times, a woman at home under a roof represented a place of safety and comfort — the idea of being sheltered and at peace. This visual idea of domestic security came to mean "safe" or "calm," and later extended to related senses like "cheap" (affordable, nothing to worry about) and "rested" (free from stress).
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Components
- 宀
- 女
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 6
- Kangxi radical
- 40
- Grade
- Grade 3 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #144 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 4
- Unicode
- U+05B89