蛍 — lightning-bug, firefly

けい蛍 lightning-bug

けい

U+86CD Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #2031 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #557 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

lightning-bug
firefly

Readings

On'yomi: けい kei
Kun'yomi: ほたる hotaru

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

蛍(けい) 光(こう) keikou fluorescence 蛍(けい) 光(こう) 灯(とう) keikoutou fluorescent lamp

Words by frequency and grade

2 words

Each dot is a word containing 蛍: 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

ちいさい小 little #42

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むし虫 insect #142

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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.

#142 虫 insect