庁 — government office

ちょう庁 government office

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

U+5E81 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #793 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #635 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

government office

word

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

庁(ちょう) chou government office 省(しょう) 庁(ちょう) shouchou government ministries and agencies 防(ぼう) 衛(えい) 庁(ちょう) boueichou Defense Agency 官(かん) 庁(ちょう) kanchou government office 警(けい) 視(し) 庁(ちょう) keishichou Metropolitan Police Department 警(けい) 察(さつ) 庁(ちょう) keisatsuchou National Police Agency 県(けん) 庁(ちょう) kenchou prefectural office 文(ぶん) 化(か) 庁(ちょう) bunkachou Agency for Cultural Affairs

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

广 slanting roof

ちょう丁 nail

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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.

#53 广 dotted cliff