幣 — cash, bad habit, humble prefix

へい幣 cash

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 15 strokes

U+5E63 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1803 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1118 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

cash
bad habit
humble prefix
gift
shinto offerings of cloth
rope
cut paper

word

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

貨(か) 幣(へい) kahei currency 紙(し) 幣(へい) shihei paper money

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

敝 worn out

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