委 — committee, entrust to, leave to

い委 committee

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes

U+59D4 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #187 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #979 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

committee
entrust to
leave to
devote
discard

word

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

委(い) i committee 委(い) 員(いん) iin committee member 教(きょう) 委(い) kyoui board of education 委(い) 任(にん) inin delegation 委(い) 託(たく) itaku entrustment 委(い) 嘱(しょく) ishoku commission

ゆだ yuda 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).

委(ゆだ) ねる yudaneru to entrust

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

禾 grain

おんな女 woman #38

Used as component in (1)

い萎 wither

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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.

#38 女 woman