幸 — happiness, blessing, fortune

しあわせ幸 happiness

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes emotion

U+5E78 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #786 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1622 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

happiness
blessing
fortune

Readings

On'yomi: こう kou
Kun'yomi: さち sachi さいわ saiwa しあわ shiawa

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しあわ shiawa 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).

幸(しあわ) せ shiawase happiness

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

幸(こう) 福(ふく) koufuku happiness 幸(こう) 運(うん) kouun good luck 不(ふ) 幸(こう) fukou unhappiness

さち sachi 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).

幸(さち) 子(こ) sachiko Sachiko (female name)

さいわ saiwa 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).

幸(さいわ) い saiwai fortunately

さいわい saiwai 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).

幸(さいわい) saiwai happiness

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

つち土 earth #32

𢆉 crime (component)

Used as component in (2)

ほう報 report しっ執 tenacious

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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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