make, production, prepare, build
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.
私が作りました。梅のおにぎりです！
Watashi ga tsukurimashita. Ume no onigiri desu!
I made it myself. It's plum onigiri!
午後は、会議とライン作業であっという間に過ぎていきました。
Gogo wa, kaigi to rain sagyou de attoiuma ni sugite ikimashita.
The afternoon flew by, between the meeting and work on the line.
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