room, apartment, chamber, greenhouse
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.
ルーカスさんは緊張しながら座り、待合室の他の人たちを見ていました。
Rūkasu-san wa kinchou shinagara suwari, machiaishitsu no hoka no hitotachi o mite imashita.
Lucas sat down, nervous, watching the other people in the waiting room.
実は、料理にすごく本気なんだ。前から教室に通ってて。
Jitsu wa, ryouri ni sugoku honki nan da. Mae kara kyoushitsu ni kayottete.
I'm actually really serious about cooking. Like, I've been taking classes for a while.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-10-22 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0