乳 — milk, breasts

ちち乳 milk

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes

U+4E73 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1289 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #786 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

milk
breasts

word

ちち chichi 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).

乳(ちち) chichi milk

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

牛(ぎゅう) 乳(にゅう) gyuunyuu milk 乳(にゅう) 幼(よう) 児(じ) nyuuyouji infant 豆(とう) 乳(にゅう) tounyuu soy milk 哺(ほ) 乳(にゅう) 類(るい) honyuurui mammal

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

孚 hatch

おつ乙 the latter #5

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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.

#5 乙 second