室 — room, chamber, cellar

しつ室 room

しつ

U+5BA4 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #550 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #754 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

room
chamber
cellar

Readings

On'yomi: しつ shitsu
Kun'yomi: むろ muro

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

室(しつ) shitsu room 教(きょう) 室(しつ) kyoushitsu classroom 室(しつ) 内(ない) shitsunai indoor 室(しつ) 長(ちょう) shitsuchou section chief 王(おう) 室(しつ) oushitsu royal family 一(いっ) 室(しつ) isshitsu one room 入(にゅう) 室(しつ) nyuushitsu entering a room 同(どう) 室(しつ) doushitsu same room

Words by frequency and grade

33 words

Each dot is a word containing 室: 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 · 23 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

宀 roof

いたる至 climax #133

Phono-semantic compound (形声). 宀 (roof) gives the meaning. 至 (containing 土, meaning to arrive) provides the phonetic shitsu. A room or chamber.

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#40 宀 roof