幼 — infancy, childhood

おさない幼 infancy

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 5 strokes

U+5E7C Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1227 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1478 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

infancy
childhood

word

おさな osana 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).

幼(おさな) い osanai young

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

幼(よう) 児(じ) youji infant 幼(よう) 少(しょう) youshou infancy 乳(にゅう) 幼(よう) 児(じ) nyuuyouji infant 幼(よう) 稚(ち) 園(えん) youchien kindergarten 幼(よう) 稚(ち) youchi childish

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

幺 tiny

ちから力 power #19

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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.

#52 幺 short thread