刈 — reap, cut, clip

かる刈 reap

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

U+5208 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1738 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1600 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

reap
cut
clip
trim
prune

word

か ka 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).

刈(か) る karu to cut

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

乂 govern

刂 knife (right form)

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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.

#18 刀 knife