performance, act, play, render
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.
それでそんなに落ち着いてるの?!公演が中止になるかもしれないのに!
Sore de sonna ni ochitsuiteru no?! Kouen ga chuushi ni naru kamoshirenai noni!
And you're this calm about it?! This could ruin your show!
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