君 — mister, you, ruler

きみ君 mister

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes people

U+541B Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #947 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1246 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

mister
you
ruler
male name suffix

word

きみ kimi 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).

君(きみ) kimi you (informal) 君(きみ) たち kimitachi you (plural) 君(きみ) が代(よ) kimigayo Kimigayo (Japanese national anthem)

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

君(くん) 主(しゅ) kunshu monarch 諸(しょ) 君(くん) shokun ladies and gentlemen

Appears in idioms

聖人君子四字熟語

holy, person, mister, child

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

尹 govern

くち口 mouth #30

Used as component in (2)

ぐん郡 county ぐん群 flock

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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