式 — style, ceremony, rite

しき式 style

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 6 strokes math abstract

U+5F0F Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #251 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #377 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

style
ceremony
rite
function
method
system
form
expression

word

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

式(しき) shiki ceremony 方(ほう) 式(しき) houshiki method 公(こう) 式(しき) koushiki official 正(せい) 式(しき) seishiki formal 形(けい) 式(しき) keishiki format 様(よう) 式(しき) youshiki style 図(ず) 式(しき) zushiki diagram 数(すう) 式(しき) suushiki mathematical formula

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

弋 ceremony

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Used as component in (2)

ためす試 test ふく拭 wipe

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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.

#56 弋 ceremony