史 — history, chronicle

し史 history

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 5 strokes

U+53F2 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #511 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #747 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

history
chronicle

word

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

史(し) shi history 歴(れき) 史(し) rekishi history 史(し) 上(じょう) shijou in history 女(じょ) 史(し) joshi Ms. 史(し) 料(りょう) shiryou historical materials 史(し) 観(かん) shikan historical view

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

くち口 mouth #30

乂 govern

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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.

#30 口 mouth