mingle, mixing, association, coming & going
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
It is Japanese. It usually shows up when the kanji stands alone or is followed by hiragana.
The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.
Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.
Where it appears is highlighted — the translation doesn't always make that visible.
せめてこの交差点で写真を撮ってもいい?
Semete kono kousaten de shashin wo tottemo ii?
Can I at least take a photo here at the crossing?
交通誘導員がホイッスルを鳴らして、進み続けるよう呼びかけました。
Koutsuu yuudouin ga hoissuru wo narashite, susumi tsuzukeru you yobikakemashita.
A traffic guard blew a whistle, asking everyone to keep moving.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-10-22 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0