Meaning & readings
house, home, family, professional, expert, performer
On’yomi カ、ケ
Kun’yomi いえ、や、うち
Nanori あり、え、く、つか、べ
Origin
This character combines a roof symbol at the top with a pig at the bottom. In ancient China, a pig living under one's roof was a sign of wealth and a functioning household, since keeping pigs was a form of property and prosperity. Over time, the character came to mean "house" more broadly, and then extended to "family" and eventually "expert" or "professional" — someone established and settled, like a house. The visual image of shelter containing livestock captures the idea of a secure domestic space.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Components
- 宀
- 豕
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 10
- Kangxi radical
- 40
- Grade
- Grade 2 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #133 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 3
- Unicode
- U+05BB6