及

See also 乃, and 廴

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – a hand (又, roughly 爪, 肀) grabbing a person 人. The hand has developed into the ㄋ at right.

Unrelated to graphically similar 乃.

Han character

及 (radical 29 又+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 弓竹水 (NHE), four-corner 1724₇)

1. extend
2. reach
3. come up to
4. and

Derived characters

• 吸 汲 級 (级)

References

• KangXi: page 165, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3118
• Dae Jaweon: page 374, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 35, character 1
• Unihan data for U+53CA

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Cantonese

Hanzi

及 (Yale kap6)

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Japanese

Kanji

及 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: きゅう (kyū)
• Kun: およぶ (oyobu), および (oyobi), およぼす (oyobosu)

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Korean

Hanja

及 (hangeul 급, revised geup, McCune-Reischauer kŭp)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

及 (pinyin fān (fan1), fǎn (fan3), jí (ji2), Wade-Giles fan¹, fan³, chi²)

Compounds

• 可及性

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Vietnamese

Han character

及 (cập, cập, gặp, kíp, kịp, vập, cầm, chắp, cúp, gấp, quắp, quặp)