秩
regularity, salary, order
Readings
On'yomi
- チツ
Kun'yomi
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Nanori
- ちち
- ちっ
Meaning
秩 centers on structured arrangement: keeping things in proper order, maintaining regularity, or following a set sequence. The salary sense is a specific application of a fixed, regular payment.
Most common words using 秩
20 of 23- 秩序ちつじょN1
order; discipline; regularity; system; method
- 無秩序むちつじょ
disorder; chaos; confusion
- 世界秩序せかいちつじょ
world order
- 公の秩序おおやけのちつじょ
public order; public policy
- 国際秩序こくさいちつじょ
international order
- 安寧秩序あんねいちつじょ
peace and order; law and order
- 新世界秩序しんせかいちつじょ
New World Order (conspiracy theory); NWO
- 法秩序ほうちつじょ
legal order
- 海洋秩序かいようちつじょ
international order of the seas; public order at sea
- 社会秩序しゃかいちつじょ
social order; public order
- 秩序保持ちつじょほじ
maintenance of public order
- 秩序度ちつじょど
degree of order
- 秩序整然ちつじょせいぜん
in good order; in perfect order; orderly; well-organized
- 秩序正しいちつじょただしい
orderly; well-ordered
- 秩序立つちつじょだつ
to be in order; to be organized; to be systematized
- 秩序立てるちつじょだてる
to put in order; to organize; to systematize
- 秩序維持ちつじょいじ
maintaining order (e.g. in a courtroom)
- 秩序自由主義ちつじょじゆうしゅぎ
ordoliberalism
- 秩父三十四所ちちぶさんじゅうよんしょ
thirty-four (orig. thirty-three) sacred places in and around Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture
- 秩父夜祭ちちぶよまつり
Chichibu Festival
Study
Etymology
秩 combines 禾 (grain) with 失, which likely contributes the sound and the idea of arranging or ordering. The original sense may relate to the orderly stacking or measuring of harvested grain.
Meaning mnemonic
Grain 禾 is stacked in neat, regular bundles beside a measuring tool 失, creating order and a fixed salary for the workers.
Reading mnemonic
For チツ, imagine a neat stack of grain that is so orderly it looks like a giant cheese: cheese -> チツ, and the regularity of the stack matches the kanji's meaning.