slide · smooth

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 滑 has 13 strokes and denotes smoothness or sliding.
• Basic usage: 滑らか is read なめらか, and 滑稽 is read こっけい.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Texture and progress
  • 手触りがとても滑らかです means that something feels very smooth.
  • 司会者の進行が滑らかで describes the moderator keeping proceedings running smoothly.
• An evaluative word with its own reading
  • 滑稽 means comical or ridiculous and is read こっけい. The representative on-reading かつ is not carried over unchanged.