需

音読おんよみ: ジュ

訓読くんよみ: none*

画数かくすう: 14

部首ぶしゅ: 雨（あめかんむり）

Meaning

Demand / Need / Request / Require.

  • 需要じゅよう — demand (economic); need
  • 需給じゅきゅう — supply and demand
  • 必需品ひつじゅひん — necessities; essentials
  • 需用じゅよう — required use; demand-side use
  • 内需ないじゅ — domestic demand

With the 雨 “rain” crown on top, 需 evokes the idea of “what people wait for or require,” like parched fields needing rain. From that image came the meanings “demand, need, requirement.”

給

Remember 需 with its natural partner 給 “to supply, provide.” 需 asks; 給 gives. Picture dry fields needing rain and clouds supplying it — a quick hook for “demand vs. supply.”

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Forms

需要じゅよう — demand; market need

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