義 — righteousness, justice, morality

ぎ義 righteousness

ぎ

U+7FA9 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #415 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #691 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

righteousness
justice
morality
honor
loyalty
meaning

Readings

On'yomi: ぎ gi

word

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

義(ぎ) gi righteousness 主(しゅ) 義(ぎ) shugi principle 義(ぎ) 務(む) gimu duty 定(てい) 義(ぎ) teigi definition 講(こう) 義(ぎ) kougi lecture 意(い) 義(ぎ) igi significance 正(せい) 義(ぎ) seigi justice 有(ゆう) 意(い) 義(ぎ) yuuigi meaningful

Words by frequency and grade

37 words

Each dot is a word containing 義: 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 · 22 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Appears in idioms

大義名分四字熟語

big righteousness, name divide

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

ひつじ羊 sheep #123

われ我 ego

Used as component in (3)

ぎ議 deliberation ぎ儀 ceremony ぎ犠 sacrifice

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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.

#123 羊 sheep