boisterous, make noise, clamor, disturb
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.
そうなんだよ。あの騒ぎの中でも、心のどこかでは、それが無事かどうかだけが気になってた。
Sou nan da yo. Ano sawagi no naka demo, kokoro no dokoka de wa, sore ga buji ka dou ka dake ga ki ni natteta.
Exactly. In the middle of all that scare, part of me just wanted to know if it had survived.
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