colleague, official, companion
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
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.
その日の昼、ルーカスは同僚たちとランチを食べました。もう忘れていました。
Sono hi no hiru, Rūkasu wa douryoutachi to ranchi o tabemashita. Mou wasurete imashita.
That day at lunch, Lucas ate with his coworkers. He had already forgotten everything.
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