浅 — shallow, superficial

あさい浅 shallow

あさい

U+6D45 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1253 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #380 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

shallow
superficial

Readings

On'yomi: せん sen
Kun'yomi: あさ asa

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あさ asa 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).

浅(あさ) い asai shallow 浅(あさ) 草(くさ) asakusa Asakusa (district in Tokyo) 浅(あさ) 野(の) asano Asano (surname) 浅(あさ) 田(だ) asada Asada (surname/place name) 浅(あさ) はか asahaka shallow

Words by frequency and grade

5 words

Each dot is a word containing 浅: 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

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

氵 water (left form)

戋 small

Phono-semantic compound (形声). 氵 (water) gives the semantic domain. The right side provides the phonetic sen. Shallow water. Contrasts with 深 (deep).

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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.

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