励 — encourage, be diligent, inspire

はげむ励 encourage

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

U+52B1 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1254 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #931 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

encourage
be diligent
inspire

word

はげ hage 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).

励(はげ) む hagemu to strive 励(はげ) ます hagemasu to encourage

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

奨(しょう) 励(れい) shourei encouragement 激(げき) 励(れい) gekirei encouragement

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

厂 cliff

まん万 ten thousand

ちから力 power #19

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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.

#19 力 power