区 — ward, district

く区 ward

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 4 strokes place

U+533A Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #137 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1831 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

ward
district

word

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

区(く) ku ward 地(ち) 区(く) chiku district 区(く) 分(ぶん) kubun division 区(く) 間(かん) kukan section 区(く) 画(かく) kukaku division 区(く) 切(ぎ) る kugiru to punctuate 区(く) 切(ぎ) り kugiri punctuation 区(く) 別(べつ) kubetsu distinction

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

匸 hiding enclosure

乂 govern

匚 box

Used as component in (4)

おう欧 europe かる駆 drive なぐる殴 assault すう枢 hinge

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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.

#23 匸 hiding enclosure