宇 — eaves, roof, house

う宇 eaves

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

U+5B87 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #883 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1785 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

eaves
roof
house
heaven

word

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

宇(う) 宙(ちゅう) uchuu space 宇(う) 宙(ちゅう) 船(せん) uchuusen spaceship 宇(う) 都(つ) 宮(のみや) utsunomiya Utsunomiya (city in Tochigi)

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

宀 roof

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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