席 — seat, mat, occasion

せき席 seat

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes

U+5E2D Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #370 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1277 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

seat
mat
occasion
place

word

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

席(せき) seki seat 出(しゅっ) 席(せき) shusseki attendance 客(きゃく) 席(せき) kyakuseki audience seat 欠(けっ) 席(せき) kesseki absence 議(ぎ) 席(せき) giseki parliamentary seat 主(しゅ) 席(せき) shuseki chairman 着(ちゃく) 席(せき) chakuseki taking a seat 満(まん) 席(せき) manseki full house

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

广 slanting roof

廿 twenty

きん巾 towel #50

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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.

#50 巾 cloth