Meaning & readings
escape, flee, shirk, evade, set free
Origin
The character combines the "movement" radical on the left (the classifying component that groups it with other action words) with the sound component 兆 on the right, which hints at the pronunciation. The left radical signals that this kanji describes an action of moving away or going somewhere, while the sound component provides a phonetic clue to how the word was pronounced in Chinese. Together they build a character meaning to run away or escape — the idea of swift movement away from a place or situation.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 兆
- ⻌
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
- 162
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #931 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+09003