佐 — assistant, help

さ佐 assistant

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes

U+4F50 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #474 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1024 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

assistant
help

word

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

佐(さ) sa assistant 佐(さ) 藤(とう) satou Sato (surname) 佐(さ) 々木(き) sasaki Sasaki 補(ほ) 佐(さ) hosa assistance 佐(さ) 野(の) sano Sano (surname/place name) 佐(さ) 賀(が) saga Saga (prefecture) 土(と) 佐(さ) tosa Tosa (historical province in Shikoku) 大(たい) 佐(さ) taisa colonel

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

亻 person (left form)

ひだり左 left

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