Readings & Meanings:
カン
な(れる)
な(らす)
habit, custom, to get used to
Common Usage:
慣れる
習慣
Examples:
だんだんと新しい仕事に慣れてきた。
早寝早起きの習慣をつける。
Translations:
I have slowly become accustomed to my new work.
I keep up the habit of "early to bed, early to rise."
Radical:
Radical is 心 in its vertical form on the left.
貫 is the phonetic, which is a pictograph of two seashells connected by a string that goes through them both. The original meaning is "pierce," but "consistent" is the extended meaning, and the one that applies here.
References:
http://www.kanjinetworks.com/indices/radindex.html
http://www.thejapanesepage.com/node/kanji/7.htm
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
慣 - HABIT
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