叔 — uncle, youth

お叔 uncle

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes

U+53D4 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1950 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #775 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

uncle
youth

word

お o 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).

叔(お) 母(ば) oba aunt

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.

叔父(おじ) oji uncle

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

尗 bean

また又 or, again #29

Used as component in (3)

とく督 coach さびしい寂 loneliness しゅく淑 graceful

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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