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奇 — strange, strangeness, curiosity

き奇 strange

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

U+5947 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1367 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #133 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

strange
strangeness
curiosity

word

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

奇(き) ki strange 奇(き) 跡(せき) kiseki miracle 奇(き) 妙(みょう) kimyou strange 好(こう) 奇(き) kouki curiosity

Appears in idioms

奇想天外四字熟語

strange, thought, heaven, outside

Stroke order

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Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

おおきい大 big #37

か可 possible

Used as component in (5)

よる寄 draw near さき崎 promontory さい埼 cape き騎 equestrian い椅 chair

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.