meeting, meet, party, association
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.
今日は違うよ！会議があるから、十二時半に変わったんだ。
Kyou wa chigau yo! Kaigi ga aru kara, juuni-ji han ni kawattan da.
Not today! It changed to twelve thirty because of the meeting.
その会館は、小さな本屋の裏に隠れています。
Sono kaikan wa, chiisana honya no ura ni kakurete imasu.
The hall is tucked away, behind a small bookstore.
はい！そこで会う約束をしてたんです！
Hai! Soko de au yakusoku o shitetan desu!
Yeah! We arranged to meet there!
お会計、二千百円になります。
Okaikei, nisen hyaku en ni narimasu.
All set. That'll be two thousand one hundred yen.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-09-07 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0