Kanji 内

音読おんよみ: ナイ・ダイ

訓読くんよみ: うち

画数かくすう: 4

部首ぶしゅ: いる(入)

Meaning

Inside / Within / Household

  • 国内こくない — domestic / within the country
  • 案内あんない — guidance / showing around
  • 内心ないしん — innermost thoughts
  • 内科ないか — internal medicine
  • 内側うちがわ — inner side
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  • 内気うちき — shyness, introversion
  • 内定ないてい — tentative offer
  • 内面ないめん — inner side, interior
  • 内臓ないぞう — internal organs
  • 内燃機関ないねんきかん — internal combustion engine

内 combines the radical for “enter” (入) with a cover or building. It originally referred to entering a space — like going into a house — and gradually came to mean “inside,” “within,” or “the inner part.”

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