Meaning & readings
beguile, delusion, perplexity
Origin
This character combines a sound hint with a meaning indicator. The top component 或 provides a rough pronunciation guide for how the character sounds. The bottom component 心, which means heart or mind, classifies this as a character about mental states or emotions. Together, they create a character meaning confusion or delusion — something that happens when your mind becomes muddled or led astray. The pairing of the mind radical with the sound component 或 gives the character both its meaning (mental confusion) and its approximate pronunciation.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 或
- 心
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 12
- Kangxi radical
- 61
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #777 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+060D1