坂 — slope, incline, hill

さか坂 slope

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

U+5742 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #865 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #780 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

slope
incline
hill

word

さか saka 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).

坂(さか) saka slope 坂(さか) 本(もと) sakamoto Sakamoto (surname) 赤(あか) 坂(さか) akasaka Akasaka (place name) 坂(さか) 口(ぐち) sakaguchi Sakaguchi (surname) 小(こ) 坂(さか) kosaka Kosaka (surname/place name) 坂(さか) 道(みち) sakamichi slope

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

つち土 earth #32

はん反 anti

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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.

#32 土 earth