安 — relax, cheap, low

あん安 relax

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 6 strokes business

U+5B89 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #144 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #202 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

relax
cheap
low
quiet
rested
contented
peaceful

word

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

安(あん) an peace 安(あん) 全(ぜん) anzen safety 安(あん) 定(てい) antei stability 安(あん) 心(しん) anshin relief 平(へい) 安(あん) heian peace 公(こう) 安(あん) kouan public safety 安(あん) 打(だ) anda base hit 一(ひと) 安(あん) 心(しん) hitoanshin sense of relief

やす yasu 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).

安(やす) い yasui cheap 目(め) 安(やす) meyasu standard 安(やす) 田(だ) yasuda Yasuda 格(かく) 安(やす) kakuyasu bargain 安(やす) 値(ね) yasune low price 割(わり) 安(やす) wariyasu bargain

あ a 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).

安(あ) 倍(べ) abe Abe 安(あ) 部(べ) abe Abe (surname)

Appears in idioms

安物買いの銭失い諺

Buying cheap, losing money

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

宀 roof

おんな女 woman #38

Used as component in (1)

あん案 plan

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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