希 — hope, beg, request

き希 hope

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes

U+5E0C Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #896 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1602 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

hope
beg
request
pray
beseech
greece
dilute
rare
few
phenomenal

word

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

希(き) ki rare 希(き) 望(ぼう) kibou hope 希(き) 少(しょう) kishou rare 希(き) 薄(はく) kihaku thin

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

乂 govern

ぬの布 linen

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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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