巨 — gigantic, big, large

きょ巨 gigantic

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 5 strokes

U+5DE8 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #892 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #920 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

gigantic
big
large
great

word

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

巨(きょ) 大(だい) kyodai huge 巨(きょ) 人(じん) kyojin giant 巨(きょ) 額(がく) kyogaku enormous sum 巨(きょ) 匠(しょう) kyoshou master

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

匚 box

に二 two #7

Used as component in (2)

こばむ拒 repel きょ距 long-distance

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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.

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