席 — seat, mat, occasion

せき席 seat

せき

U+5E2D Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #370 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1277 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

seat
mat
occasion
place

Readings

On'yomi: せき seki
Kun'yomi: むしろ mushiro

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

席(せき) seki seat 出(しゅっ) 席(せき) shusseki attendance 客(きゃく) 席(せき) kyakuseki audience seat 欠(けっ) 席(せき) kesseki absence 議(ぎ) 席(せき) giseki parliamentary seat 主(しゅ) 席(せき) shuseki chairman 着(ちゃく) 席(せき) chakuseki taking a seat 満(まん) 席(せき) manseki full house

せっ se

席(せっ) 巻(けん) sekken sweeping (over, across)

Words by frequency and grade

18 words

Each dot is a word containing 席: 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 · 7 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

广 slanting roof

廿 twenty

きん巾 towel #50

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#50 巾 cloth