憬 — yearn for, aspire to, admire

けい憬 yearn for

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 15 strokes

U+61AC Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Heisig #682 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

yearn for
aspire to
admire

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).

憧(しょう) 憬(けい) shoukei longing

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

忄 heart (left form)

けい景 scenery

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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