report, news, reward, retribution
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.
何も感じなかった…ただの誤報だったのかな?
Nani mo kanjinakatta... tada no gohou datta no kana?
I didn't feel anything... maybe it was just a false alarm?
よかった、津波警報は出てないね。
Yokatta, tsunami keihou wa detenai ne.
Good, there was no tsunami warning.
携帯のアラーム、聞いた?あれは緊急地震速報よ。
Keitai no araamu, kiita? Are wa kinkyuu jishin sokuhou yo.
Did you hear that alarm on your phone? That's the emergency alert.
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