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孤 — orphan, alone

こ孤 orphan

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes

U+5B64 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1239 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #2024 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

orphan
alone

word

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

孤(こ) 独(どく) kodoku solitude 孤(こ) 立(りつ) koritsu isolation 孤(こ) 児(じ) koji orphan

Appears in idioms

孤立無援四字熟語

orphan, stand, nothingness, abet

天涯孤独四字熟語

heaven, horizon, orphan, single

Stroke order

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9

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

こ子 child #39

瓜 melon

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.