径

音読おんよみ: ケイ

訓読くんよみ: みち

画数かくすう: 8

部首ぶしゅ: ぎょうにんべん(彳)

Meaning

Path / Route / Diameter

  • 直径ちょっけい — diameter
  • 半径はんけい — radius
  • 径路けいろ — route / path
  • 山径さんけい — mountain path
  • 小径こみち — narrow path / lane

径 combines 彳 (“step, walk”) with 圭 as phonetic. It originally referred to a footpath and later extended to mathematics as diameter.

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