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利 — profit, advantage, benefit

り利 profit

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes business

U+5229 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #203 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #972 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

profit
advantage
benefit

word

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

利(り) ri profit 利(り) 用(よう) riyou use 便(べん) 利(り) benri convenient 金(きん) 利(り) kinri interest rate 勝(しょう) 利(り) shouri victory 有(ゆう) 利(り) yuuri advantageous 利(り) 害(がい) rigai interests 利(り) 点(てん) riten advantage

き ki 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).

利(き) く kiku to be effective 左(ひだり) 利(き) き hidarikiki left-handed

Appears in idioms

片利共生四字熟語

one-sided, profit, together, life

薄利多売四字熟語

dilute, profit, many, sell

Stroke order

1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

禾 grain

刂 knife (right form)

Used as component in (2)

なし梨 pear tree り痢 diarrhea

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.