宵 — wee hours, evening, early night

よい宵 wee hours

よい

U+5BB5 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #2262 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #201 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

wee hours
evening
early night

Readings

On'yomi: しょう shou
Kun'yomi: よい yoi

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よい yoi 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).

宵(よい) yoi evening

Words by frequency and grade

1 word

Each dot is a word containing 宵: 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

宀 roof

しょう肖 resemblance

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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.

#40 宀 roof