幹 — tree trunk, main part, talent

みき幹 tree trunk

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 13 strokes

U+5E79 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #364 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1783 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

tree trunk
main part
talent
capability

word

みき miki 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).

幹(みき) miki trunk

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

幹(かん) 部(ぶ) kanbu executive 新(しん) 幹(かん) 線(せん) shinkansen bullet train 幹(かん) 事(じ) kanji organizer 根(こん) 幹(かん) konkan root and trunk 基(き) 幹(かん) kikan mainstay 幹(かん) 線(せん) kansen main line

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

𠦝 sunrise

ひと人 person #9

ほす干 dry #51

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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.

#51 干 dry