丸 — round, circle, ball

まるい丸 round

Grade 2 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 3 strokes

U+4E38 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #542 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #44 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

round
circle
ball
pills

word

まる maru 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).

丸(まる) い marui round 丸(まる) maru circle 日(ひ) の丸(まる) hinomaru Japanese national flag 丸(まる) 山(やま) maruyama Maruyama (surname/place name) 丸(まる) ごと marugoto whole 丸(まる) の内(うち) marunouchi Marunouchi (district in Tokyo)

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

きゅう九 nine

丶 dot

Used as component in (1)

しっ執 tenacious

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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.

#4 丿 slash