製

音読おんよみ: セイ

訓読くんよみ: none *

画数かくすう: 14

部首ぶしゅ: ころも(衣)

Meaning

Manufacture / Produce / Make

  • 製品せいひん — product / manufactured goods
  • 製造せいぞう — manufacture / production
  • 製作せいさく — production (esp. artistic)
  • 木製もくせい — wooden / made of wood
  • 製紙せいし — paper manufacturing
  • 製鉄せいてつ — steel production

The kanji 製 combines the 衣 (ころも, clothing) radical with 制 (control/arrange). Originally, it suggested tailoring clothes, then broadened to mean producing or manufacturing goods of any kind.

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