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屋 — roof, house, shop

や屋 roof

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes home

U+5C4B Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #616 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1138 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

roof
house
shop
dealer
seller

word

や ya 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).

屋(や) ya shop 部(へ) 屋(や) heya room 名(な) 古(ご) 屋(や) nagoya Nagoya 屋(や) 根(ね) yane roof 本(ほん) 屋(や) honya bookstore 小(こ) 屋(や) koya hut 屋(や) 台(たい) yatai food stall お部(へ) 屋(や) oheya room

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

屋(おく) 上(じょう) okujou rooftop 家(か) 屋(おく) kaoku house 屋(おく) 外(がい) okugai outdoors 屋(おく) 内(ない) okunai indoors

Stroke order

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Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

尸 corpse

いたる至 climax #133

Used as component in (1)

にぎる握 grip

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.