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午 — noon, sign of the horse

ご午 noon

Grade 2 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 4 strokes time

U+5348 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #154 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #578 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

noon
sign of the horse

word

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

午(ご) 後(ご) gogo afternoon 午(ご) 前(ぜん) gozen morning 正(しょう) 午(ご) shougo noon

Stroke order

1
2
3
4

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

丿 slash

ほす干 dry #51

Used as component in (2)

ゆるす許 permit おろし卸 wholesale

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.