友 — friend

ともだち友 friend

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

U+53CB Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #622 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #704 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

friend

word

とも tomo 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).

友(とも) だち tomodachi friend 友(とも) tomo friend

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

友(ゆう) 人(じん) yuujin friend 親(しん) 友(ゆう) shinyuu close friend 友(ゆう) 好(こう) yuukou friendship 友(ゆう) 情(じょう) yuujou friendship

Jukujikun Jukujikun Jukujikun (熟字訓) — special readings where the pronunciation applies to the whole compound word rather than individual kanji. The reading cannot be split per character.

友達(ともだち) tomodachi friend

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

𠂇 grabbing hand

また又 or, again #29

Used as component in (2)

ぬく抜 slip out かみ髪 hair of the head

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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.

#29 又 again