宙 — mid-air, air, space

ちゅう宙 mid-air

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes

U+5B99 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1005 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1190 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

mid-air
air
space
sky
memorization
interval of time

word

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

宙(ちゅう) chuu midair 宇(う) 宙(ちゅう) uchuu space 宇(う) 宙(ちゅう) 船(せん) uchuusen spaceship

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

宀 roof

よし由 reason

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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