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 strokes

部首ぶしゅ: 入(いる)

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

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.”

うちっています。
Please wait inside.

国内こくない旅行りょこうきです。
I like domestic travel.

側
Creates
内側うちがわ — inner sid
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