夢 — dream, vision, illusion

ゆめ夢 dream

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 13 strokes

U+5922 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #943 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #327 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

dream
vision
illusion

word

ゆめ yume 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).

夢(ゆめ) yume dream 夢(ゆめ) 見(み) る yumemiru to dream

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

夢(む) 中(ちゅう) muchuu absorbed in 悪(あく) 夢(む) akumu nightmare

Appears in idioms

無我夢中四字熟語

nothingness, ego, dream, middle

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

艹 grass

罒 net (top form)

冖 cover

ゆう夕 evening #36

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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