嗣 — heir, succeed

し嗣 heir

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 13 strokes

U+55E3 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #2310 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #2011 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

heir
succeed

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).

嗣(し) 子(し) shishi heir

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

くち口 mouth #30

さつ冊 tome

つかさ司 director

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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