喩 — metaphor, compare

ゆ喩 metaphor

ゆ

U+55A9 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Heisig #308 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

metaphor
compare

Readings

On'yomi: ゆ yu
Kun'yomi: たと tato さと sato

word

ゆ yu On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

比(ひ) 喩(ゆ) hiyu metaphor

Words by frequency and grade

1 word

Each dot is a word containing 喩: 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

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

くち口 mouth #30

兪 yes

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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.

#30 口 mouth