萎 — wither, droop, lame

い萎 wither

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U+840E Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Heisig #986 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

wither
droop
lame

Readings

On'yomi: い i
Kun'yomi: な na しお shio しな shina しぼ shibo

word

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

萎(い) 縮(しゅく) ishuku atrophy

な na 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).

萎(な) える naeru to lose strength

Words by frequency and grade

2 words

Each dot is a word containing 萎: 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

艹 grass

い委 committee

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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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