恋 — romance, in love, yearn for

こい恋 romance

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes emotion

U+604B Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1296 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1885 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

romance
in love
yearn for
miss
darling

word

こい koi 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).

恋(こい) koi love 恋(こい) 人(びと) koibito lover

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

恋(れん) 愛(あい) renai love

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

亦 also

こころ心 heart #61

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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.

#61 心 heart