Meaning & readings
stand up, rise, set up, erect
On’yomi リツ、リュウ、リットル
Kun’yomi た.つ、-た.つ、た.ち-、た.てる、-た.てる、た.て-、たて-、-た.て、-だ.て、-だ.てる
Nanori たち、たっ、たつ、だて、つい
Origin
The character 立 is a simple picture of a person standing upright. The two horizontal strokes at the top and bottom represent the head and feet, while the vertical line running down the middle is the body. Over time, this straightforward image of an upright human figure became the standard way to write the word for "stand" or "stand up" in Japanese and Chinese. The meaning flows naturally from what the picture shows: someone in an upright, erect position.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Pictographic or simple.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (立).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 5
- Kangxi radical
- 117
- Grade
- Grade 1 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #58 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 4
- Unicode
- U+07ACB