回 — times, rotate, revolve

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かい回 times

Grade 2 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 6 strokes

U+56DE Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #50 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #586 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

times
rotate
revolve
counter for occurrences

word

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

回(かい) kai time(s) 今(こん) 回(かい) konkai this time 前(ぜん) 回(かい) zenkai last time 一(いち) 回(かい) ikkai once 毎(まい) 回(かい) maikai every time 回(かい) 答(とう) kaitou answer 回(かい) 数(すう) kaisuu number of times 回(かい) 線(せん) kaisen circuit

まわ mawa 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).

回(まわ) る mawaru to turn 回(まわ) す mawasu to turn 上(うわ) 回(まわ) る uwamawaru to exceed 回(まわ) り mawari surroundings 下(した) 回(まわ) る shitamawaru to fall below 出(で) 回(まわ) る demawaru to appear on the market 走(はし) り回(まわ) る hashirimawaru to run around 回(まわ) し mawashi rotation

Appears in idioms

起死回生四字熟語

rouse, death, times, life

急がば回れ諺

If you are in a hurry, go the long way around

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

囗 enclosure

くち口 mouth #30

Compound ideograph (会意). 口 (enclosure) inside 囗 (outer enclosure). Concentric squares — rotation, revolving, cyclical return.

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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.

#31 囗 enclosure