meal, boiled rice
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.
ルーカスは急いで着替え、朝ご飯もほとんど食べずに家を出ました。
Rūkasu wa isoide kigae, asagohan mo hotondo tabezu ni ie o demashita.
Lucas got dressed in a rush and left home barely having breakfast.
ゆっくりと、全部を炊飯器に入れました。
Yukkuri to, zenbu wo suihanki ni iremashita.
He added everything to the rice cooker, slowly.
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