彼 — he, that, the

かれ彼 he

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

U+5F7C Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #648 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #948 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

he
that
the

word

かれ kare 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).

彼(かれ) kare he 彼(かれ) ら karera they (male) 彼(かれ) 等(ら) karera they 彼(かれ) 氏(し) kareshi boyfriend

かの kano 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).

彼(かの) 女(じょ) kanojo she 彼(かの) 女(じょ) ら kanojora they (female)

Jukujikun Jukujikun Jukujikun (熟字訓) — special readings where the pronunciation applies to the whole compound word rather than individual kanji. The reading cannot be split per character.

彼方(かなた) kanata beyond

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

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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.

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