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れい例 example

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes abstract

U+4F8B Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #399 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1046 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

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

例(れい) rei example 事(じ) 例(れい) jirei example 例(れい) 外(がい) reigai exception 特(とく) 例(れい) tokurei special case 例(れい) 年(ねん) reinen average year 実(じつ) 例(れい) jitsurei actual example 定(てい) 例(れい) teirei regular 例(れい) 会(かい) reikai regular meeting

たと tato 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).

例(たと) えば tatoeba for example 例(たと) える tatoeru to compare

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

亻 person (left form)

れつ列 file

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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.

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