康 — ease, peace

こう康 ease

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 11 strokes health

U+5EB7 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #760 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1243 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

ease
peace

word

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).

康(こう) kou health 健(けん) 康(こう) kenkou health

やす yasu 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).

家(いえ) 康(やす) ieyasu Ieyasu (given name, as in Tokugawa Ieyasu)

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

广 slanting roof

隶 slave

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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