囲 — surround, besiege, store

かこむ囲 surround

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes

U+56F2 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #771 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1948 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

surround
besiege
store
paling
enclosure
encircle
preserve
keep

word

かこ kako 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).

囲(かこ) む kakomu to surround 取(と) り囲(かこ) む torikakomu to surround

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

周(しゅう) 囲(い) shuui surroundings 包(ほう) 囲(い) houi siege 雰(ふん) 囲(い) 気(き) funiki atmosphere 範(はん) 囲(い) hani range 広(こう) 範(はん) 囲(い) kouhani wide range 囲(い) 碁(ご) igo Go

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

囗 enclosure

い井 well

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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