顎 — jaw, chin, gill

あご顎 jaw

あご

U+984E Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Heisig #1333 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

jaw
chin
gill

Readings

On'yomi: がく gaku
Kun'yomi: あご ago あぎと agito

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あご ago 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).

顎(あご) ago jaw

Words by frequency and grade

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Each dot is a word containing 顎: 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

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

咢 startled cry

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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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