victory, win, prevail, excel
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.
勝手に電源が切れるし、バッテリーも全然もたないの。近いうちに完全に壊れそうだわ。
Katte ni dengen ga kireru shi, batterii mo zenzen motanai no. Chikai uchi ni kanzen ni kowaresou da wa.
It turns off on its own, the battery doesn't last at all. I think it's going to die completely one of these days.
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