医 — doctor, medicine

い医 doctor

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes health

U+533B Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #437 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1829 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

doctor
medicine

word

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

医(い) i medicine 医(い) 学(がく) igaku medicine 医(い) 者(しゃ) isha doctor 医(い) 薬(やく) 品(ひん) iyakuhin pharmaceutical 医(い) 学(がく) 部(ぶ) igakubu medical school 歯(は) 医(い) 者(しゃ) haisha dentist 医(い) 院(いん) iin clinic 医(い) 薬(やく) iyaku medicine

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

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や矢 arrow #111

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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.

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