刃 — blade, sword, edge

は刃 blade

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U+5203 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1763 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #88 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

blade
sword
edge

Readings

On'yomi: じん jin にん nin
Kun'yomi: は ha やいば yaiba き ki

word

は ha Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

刃(は) ha blade 刃(は) 物(もの) hamono edged tool 刃(は) 渡(わた) り hawatari length of a blade

Words by frequency and grade

3 words

Each dot is a word containing 刃: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 1 word has no frequency rank; it sits in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

かたな刀 sword #18

丶 dot

Used as component in (1)

しのび忍 endure

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#18 刀 knife