弥 — increasingly, more and more, used in names (Yayoi)

や弥 increasingly

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes

U+5F25 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1687 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1322 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

increasingly
more and more
used in names (Yayoi)

Readings

On'yomi: み mi び bi
Kun'yomi: や ya いや iya いよ iyo わた wata

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や ya 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).

弥(や) ya all the more 弥(や) 生(よい) yayoi Yayoi period

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ゆみ弓 bow #57

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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.

#57 弓 bow