后 — empress, queen, after

きさき后 empress

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 6 strokes

U+540E Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1583 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #2005 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

empress
queen
after
behind
back
later

word

きさき kisaki 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).

后(きさき) kisaki empress

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

厂 cliff

くち口 mouth #30

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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