悲 — grieve, sad, deplore

かなしい悲 grieve

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 12 strokes emotion

U+60B2 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1014 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1763 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

grieve
sad
deplore
regret

word

かな kana 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).

悲(かな) しい kanashii sad 悲(かな) しみ kanashimi sadness 悲(かな) しむ kanashimu to grieve

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

悲(ひ) 鳴(めい) himei scream 悲(ひ) 観(かん) hikan pessimism 悲(ひ) 劇(げき) higeki tragedy 悲(ひ) 惨(さん) hisan miserable

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ひ非 un- #175

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