多 — many, much, frequent

おおい多 many

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

U+591A Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #139 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #108 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

many
much
frequent

word

おお oo 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).

多(おお) い ooi many 多(おお) く ooku many 数(かず) 多(おお) い kazuooi many 数(かず) 多(おお) く kazuooku many 多(おお) め oome somewhat more

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

多(た) 分(ぶん) tabun probably 多(た) 少(しょう) tashou somewhat 多(た) ta many 多(た) 数(すう) tasuu majority 多(た) 々 tata very much 多(た) 大(だい) tadai great 多(た) 用(よう) tayou being busy 多(た) 角(かく) takaku many-sided

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ゆう夕 evening #36

Used as component in (1)

うつる移 shift

Compound ideograph (会意). Two evening/meat elements (夕夕) stacked. Many and much — doubling embodies plurality.

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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.

#36 夕 evening