Meaning & readings
dispatch, despatch, send, give, donate, do, undertake
Origin
This character combines a sound hint on the right side with a movement radical on the left. The left component, which looks like a walking figure, suggests the sense of sending someone or giving a direction. The right side provides a phonetic clue to how the character is pronounced in Chinese, making it a sound-plus-meaning combination. Together, these parts create a character that originally meant to send or dispatch someone on a task, and later expanded to mean giving or doing an action.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 中+2+3+11+2+11+2
- 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
- 13
- Kangxi radical
- 162
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #664 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+09063