幅 — width, breadth, hanging scroll

はば幅 width

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 12 strokes

U+5E45 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #641 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #435 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

width
breadth
hanging scroll

Readings

On'yomi: ふく fuku
Kun'yomi: はば haba

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はば haba 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).

幅(はば) haba width 大(おお) 幅(はば) oohaba large-scale 幅(はば) 広(ひろ) い habahiroi wide

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

増(ぞう) 幅(ふく) zoufuku amplification

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

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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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