項
Mnemonic
A carpenter grabs a page of legal text and runs his saw down the lines, slicing it into neat paragraphs. Each paragraph is a plank — measured, cut, and numbered, ready for assembly into a sturdy document.
Additional thoughts
Picture the carpenter treating each paragraph like a plank of wood: precise, uniform, essential to the structure. The page is raw material; the paragraphs are his finished pieces stacked in order.Quick recall
A carpenter saws a page into neat paragraph planks.Details
The keyword for 項 is paragraph. This kanji refers to a section, clause, or item within a written document, particularly in legal or formal texts where content is organized into numbered divisions. It carries the sense of an individual unit or entry within a larger structured whole. By extension, it can also refer to the nape of the neck, reflecting its older meaning related to the back of the head, though its modern usage predominantly centers on textual divisions.
- On'yomi
- こう
- Kun'yomi
- うなじ