室 — room, chamber, cellar
しつ
室
room
Grade 2
Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school.
9 strokes
school
home
U+5BA4
Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard.
Freq #550
Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common.
Heisig #754
Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.
Meanings
- room
- chamber
- cellar
word
しつ shitsu On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).
Components
Composed of
Phono-semantic compound (形声). 宀 (roof) gives the meaning. 至 (containing 土, meaning to arrive) provides the phonetic shitsu. A room or chamber.