崖 — cliff, bluff, precipice

がけ崖 cliff

がけ

U+5D16 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Heisig #841 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

cliff
bluff
precipice

Readings

On'yomi: がい gai げ ge ぎ gi
Kun'yomi: がけ gake きし kishi はて hate

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がけ gake 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).

崖(がけ) gake cliff

Words by frequency and grade

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Each dot is a word containing 崖: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

やま山 mountain #46

厓 cliff

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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.

#46 山 mountain