宅 — home, house, residence

たく宅 home

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

U+5B85 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #357 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #2065 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

home
house
residence
our house
my husband

word

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

宅(たく) taku home 住(じゅう) 宅(たく) juutaku residence 自(じ) 宅(たく) jitaku one's home 帰(き) 宅(たく) kitaku returning home 在(ざい) 宅(たく) zaitaku at home お宅(たく) otaku your home 宅(たく) 配(はい) takuhai home delivery 宅(たく) 地(ち) takuchi residential land

やけ yake 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).

三(み) 宅(やけ) miyake Miyake

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

宀 roof

乇 leaf

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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.

#40 宀 roof