箴 — 15 strokes / Radical「竹」
道1University / general (hardest) / 15 strokes / Radical「竹」
- On
- シンしん · shin
- Kun
- いまし.める・はりimashi.meru · hari
- Meaning
- an admonition; a needle
Stroke order
Origin
Bamboo 竹 with 咸 as phonetic: a bamboo needle; by extension, an admonition.
Compounds
- 箴言しんげん
a maxim; an aphorism
- 箴めるいましめる
to admonish
Example
箴言を胸に刻んで生きる。
They live with the maxim graven on their heart.
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