Meaning & readings
politics, government
Origin
The character 政 combines two parts to represent government and politics. On the left, 正 serves as a sound hint, suggesting the pronunciation, while on the right, the 攵 component (a form of the "strike" or "action" radical) indicates that this character involves active doing or administration. Together, they create an image of taking action in an orderly or correct way — which is what governing a state requires. The combination essentially captures the idea of the active work involved in ruling and maintaining order.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 正
- 攵
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 9
- Kangxi radical
- 66
- Grade
- Grade 5 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #17 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+0653F