Meaning & readings
petition, request, vow, wish, hope
Origin
This character combines the sound hint 原 (read "gen") on the left, which suggests the pronunciation "gan", with the classifier 頁 (head or face) on the right. The right component, depicting the shape of a human head, points toward the idea of something happening in the mind. Together, the shape represents the mental act of making a wish or petition—thoughts and desires that form in your head—with the sound component helping indicate how to pronounce it.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 原
- 頁
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 19
- Kangxi radical
- 181
- Grade
- Grade 4 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #894 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+09858