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器 — utensil, vessel, receptacle

き器 utensil

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 15 strokes technology

U+5668 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #525 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #127 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

utensil
vessel
receptacle
implement
instrument
ability
container
tool
set

word

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

器(き) ki vessel 機(き) 器(き) kiki machinery 楽(がっ) 器(き) gakki musical instrument 兵(へい) 器(き) heiki weapon 器(き) 具(ぐ) kigu utensil 食(しょっ) 器(き) shokki tableware 器(き) 用(よう) kiyou skillful 器(き) 官(かん) kikan organ

Appears in idioms

大器晩成四字熟語

big, utensil, nightfall, turn into

器用貧乏四字熟語

utensil, use, poverty, destitution

Stroke order

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Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

くち口 mouth #30

おおきい大 big #37

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.