宵 — wee hours, evening, early night

よい宵 wee hours

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

U+5BB5 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #2262 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #201 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

wee hours
evening
early night

word

よい yoi 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).

宵(よい) yoi evening

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

宀 roof

しょう肖 resemblance

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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