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岐

Branch Off
Stroke count: 7

Readings

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JLPT level: N1JōyōGrade 8Level 39

Verbs with «岐»

分岐する

Meanings

  1. branch offRtK
  2. arena
  3. fork in road
  4. scene
  5. theater
  1. the public
  2. the street (e.g. "word on the street")
  3. street
  4. district
  5. quarters

Radicals and components

Radical山mountain
Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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mountain (山) · branch · ten (十) · needle (丨) · crotch

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 834

Compound words

岐阜ぎふ
Gifu (city, prefecture)
岐路きろ
forked road; crossroads
多岐たき
diverse; various; wide-ranging
分岐ぶんき
divergence; ramification; bifurcation; branching off
分岐点ぶんきてん
fork; junction; diverging point; turning point (e.g. in one's life); crossroads
壱岐いき
Iki (former province located on Iki Island in present-day Nagasaki Prefecture)
岐点きてん
branch point/fork
岐阜県ぎふけん
Gifu Prefecture (Chūbu area)
岐阜市ぎふし
Gifu City
岐阜城ぎふじょう
Gifu Castle
岐阜縣ぎふけん
Gifu Prefecture (Chūbu area)
分岐駅ぶんきえき
junction
分岐線ぶんきせん
branch line
岐阜県警ぎふけんけい
Gifu Prefectural Police
岐阜提灯ぎふぢょうちん
gifu lantern
岐阜提燈ぎふぢょうちん
gifu lantern
局所分岐きょくしょぶんき
local jump
分岐するぶんきする
to diverge; to branch off
非局所分岐ひきょくしょぶんき
non-local jump
岐阜教育大学ぎふきょういくだいがく
Gifu University of Education

Additional Examples

川は町の３キロ下流で分岐する。
The river branches three kilometers below the town.tatoeba
私たちは岐阜に行った。
We went to Gifu.tatoeba
講演の内容は多岐に渡っていた。
The lecture covered a lot of ground.tatoeba
話は多岐にわたった。
We talked about various topics.tatoeba

Stroke Order

7 strokes

Fork, branching. Mountain 山 + 支 (branch) — a mountain path splitting into several.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 岐

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step