司 — director, official, govt office

つかさ司 director

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

U+53F8 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #759 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #2007 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

director
official
govt office
rule
administer

word

つかさ tsukasa 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).

司(つかさ) tsukasa official

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

司(し) 法(ほう) shihou judiciary 上(じょう) 司(し) joushi boss 司(し) 会(かい) shikai master of ceremonies 司(し) 令(れい) shirei command 司(し) 祭(さい) shisai priest 公(こう) 司(し) koushi company (Chinese-style) 司(し) 馬(ば) shiba Shiba (surname) 司(し) 教(きょう) shikyou bishop

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

いち一 one #1

くち口 mouth #30

Used as component in (4)

かう飼 domesticate し詞 part of speech うかがう伺 pay respects し嗣 heir

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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