冊 — tome, counter for books, volume

さつ冊 tome

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 5 strokes

U+518A Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1313 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1967 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

tome
counter for books
volume

word

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

冊(さつ) satsu counter for books

さっ sa 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).

冊(さっ) 子(し) sasshi booklet 小(しょう) 冊(さっ) 子(し) shousasshi booklet

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

冂 upside-down box

廾 two hands

じゅう十 ten #24

Used as component in (2)

し嗣 heir さく柵 stockade

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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.

#13 冂 down-box