垂 — droop, suspend, hang

たれる垂 droop

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes

U+5782 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1720 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1705 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

droop
suspend
hang
slouch

word

た ta 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).

垂(た) れる tareru to hang down

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

垂(すい) 直(ちょく) suichoku vertical

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

せん千 thousand

つち土 earth #32

Used as component in (3)

ゆう郵 mail ねむる睡 drowsy だ唾 saliva

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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