傾 — lean, incline, tilt

かたむく傾 lean

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 13 strokes

U+50BE Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #938 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1086 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

lean
incline
tilt
trend
wane
sink
ruin
bias

word

かたむ katamu 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).

傾(かたむ) く katamuku to tilt 傾(かたむ) ける katamukeru to tilt

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

傾(けい) 向(こう) keikou tendency 傾(けい) 斜(しゃ) keisha inclination

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

亻 person (left form)

ころ頃 time

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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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