Meaning & readings
take along, lead, join, connect, party, gang, clique
Origin
This character combines a vehicle (車, the left component) with a walking radical (⻌, the right side) to show people or things moving together in a line. The image of carts or travelers following one after another along a path led to the meaning of connecting or joining together. Over time, the character expanded to mean leading people, being joined as a group or party, and the general sense of things being linked in sequence. The compound makes visual sense: multiple moving elements in connection represents the idea of joining and continuity.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Components
- 車
- ⻌
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 10
- Kangxi radical
- 162
- Grade
- Grade 4 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #30 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+09023