程

音読おんよみ: テイ

訓読くんよみ: ほど

画数かくすう: 12

部首ぶしゅ: のぎへん(禾)

Meaning

Extent / Degree / Limit / Distance

  • 程度ていど — degree; level
  • 日程にってい — schedule
  • 過程かてい — process
  • 課程かてい — course; curriculum
  • 旅程りょてい — itinerary
  • ほど — extent; about; approximately

程 combines 禾 (grain, representing measurement of harvest) with 呈 (phonetic テイ). From the idea of measuring crops, it broadened to mean “extent,” “degree,” or “limit.”

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