得 — gain, get, find

える得 gain

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

U+5F97 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #175 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #941 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

gain
get
find
earn
acquire
can
may
able to
profit
advantage
benefit

word

え e 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).

得(え) る eru to get やむを得(え) ない yamuoenai unavoidable 有(あ) り得(え) る arieru to be possible 心(こころ) 得(え) kokoroe knowledge

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

取(しゅ) 得(とく) shutoku acquisition 所(しょ) 得(とく) shotoku income 得(とく) 意(い) tokui strong point 説(せっ) 得(とく) settoku persuasion 得(とく) toku gain 得(とく) 点(てん) tokuten score 習(しゅう) 得(とく) shuutoku acquisition 修(しゅう) 得(とく) shuutoku acquisition of knowledge

Appears in idioms

自業自得四字熟語

self, business, self, gain

時を得る慣用句

to obtain and hold one's own time

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

彳 step

㝵 obtain

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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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