宴 — banquet, feast, party

うたげ宴 banquet

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes

U+5BB4 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1675 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #203 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

banquet
feast
party

word

うたげ utage 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).

宴(うたげ) utage banquet

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

宴(えん) 会(かい) enkai banquet 披(ひ) 露(ろう) 宴(えん) hirouen wedding reception

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

宀 roof

ひ日 sun #72

おんな女 woman #38

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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