verb

Meanings

  1. 1 Japanese-made character (kokuji); 'to put into' (not standard Chinese)

Examples

Rù shì Rìběn zào de zì, Zhōngwén yòng rù biǎoshì jìnrù.
The character 込 is a Japanese-made graph; in Chinese the meaning 'to enter' is written 入.

Tips

history
is a kokuji — a character invented in Japan, not borrowed from Chinese. It does not exist in standard Chinese, where the idea of entering or putting in is carried by . It combines the walk radical with (enter), and appears in everyday Japanese compound verbs meaning to put in or apply.
register
Not a Chinese character; appears only in Japanese text and in etymology notes explaining kokuji. Chinese dictionaries list it under the borrowed reading rù for reference.

Components

radical
chuò
walk; movement
The walk radical (contracted from ) wraps the lower left and is written last, adding the idea of motion into a space — entering or inserting.
semantic
to enter
Both pieces carry meaning in this Japanese-coined graph: supplies the core 'enter / put in' sense and, in Chinese, its borrowed reading.

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