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刑 — punish, penalty, sentence

けい刑 punish

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

U+5211 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #864 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #734 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

punish
penalty
sentence
punishment

word

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).

刑(けい) kei punishment 刑(けい) 事(じ) keiji criminal case 死(し) 刑(けい) shikei death penalty 刑(けい) 務(む) 所(しょ) keimusho prison 刑(けい) 法(ほう) keihou criminal law 処(しょ) 刑(けい) shokei execution 刑(けい) 罰(ばつ) keibatsu punishment

Stroke order

1
2
3
4
5
6

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

开 open (component form)

刂 knife (right form)

Used as component in (1)

かた型 mould

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.