慶 — jubilation, congratulate, rejoice

けい慶 jubilation

けい

U+6176 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1300 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #2157 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

jubilation
congratulate
rejoice
be happy

Readings

On'yomi: けい kei
Kun'yomi: よろこ yoroko

word

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

慶(けい) kei congratulation 弁(べん) 慶(けい) benkei strong person (after the name of a 12th-century warrior monk)

Words by frequency and grade

2 words

Each dot is a word containing 慶: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 1 word has no frequency rank; it sits in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

广 slanting roof

こころ心 heart #61

夂 go slowly

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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