Telling Some Homophone Kanji Apart

TELLING SOME HOMOPHONE KANJI APART

📚 掛ける、懸ける、架ける、賭ける ： かける
❶懸ける：
💥 To present, to award
例：勝者に賞品を懸ける
👉To present a prize to the winner.
💥To entrust, to commit
例： 一生を懸けた仕事
👉 The work I have given my whole life to
💥 To wish, to pray
例： 望みを懸ける
👉 To cherish a hope

❷架ける： To span, to connect two things
例：川に橋を架ける
👉To build a bridge across a river

❸賭ける： To bet, to wager
例：命を賭ける
👉 To stake your life.

❹掛ける： To hang. Used very widely. It covers almost every other case. If you don't know which to use, this one will do.
例：壁に時計を掛ける
👉 To hang a clock on the wall

📚 計る、測る、量る ： はかる
❶ 計る： To measure, to time. Usually used for blood pressure and time.
例： タイミングを計って、質問する。
👉To time the moment to ask.

❷ 量る： To weigh, to measure. Usually used for weight and volume
例： かばんの重さを量る。
👉To weigh a bag.

❸ 測る： To measure. Usually used for length, area, temperature…
例： シャツの寸法を測る。
👉To measure the size of a shirt

📚 図る、謀る、諮る： はかる
❶ 図る： To plan, to try to bring something about.
例：自殺を図る
👉 To plan to take your own life

❷ 謀る： To deceive someone. Usually used in the passive.
例：彼に謀られて母がくれた指輪を売ってしまった。
👉 He tricked me, so I ended up selling the ring my mother gave me

❸ 諮る： To ask someone's opinion on a matter. Usually used at meetings and in companies, when a superior asks a subordinate's opinion.
例：職員会議に諮る
👉 To ask the opinion of those at the meeting.

📚 写す、映す： うつす
❶ 写す： To photograph, to copy. Reproducing a text or an image exactly.
例： ノートを借りて写す
👉 To borrow a notebook and copy out the lesson.

❷ 映す：To project, to reflect. Showing the image of one thing on the surface of another.
例： 大画面にDVDを映す
👉 To project a DVD onto a big screen

📚 抑える、押さえる： おさえる
❶ 抑える： To hold back, to suppress.
Usually used for abstract things such as feelings, force….
例： 感情を抑える
👉 To hold back your feelings

❷ 押さえる：to hold in place, to secure / to safeguard.
Usually used when force is applied to hold something still. It also means to hold on to or protect what belongs to you, such as rights and property….
例：風邪が強くて帽子を押さえながら走った。
👉 The wind was strong, so I ran along holding my hat on.

Source: Lạc Trôi 日本

See also:
Kanji in Everyday Life
2000 Common Kanji