戒 — commandment

かい戒 commandment

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes

U+6212 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1062 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #730 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

commandment

word

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

警(けい) 戒(かい) keikai vigilance 懲(ちょう) 戒(かい) choukai disciplinary action

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

戈 halberd

廾 two hands

Used as component in (1)

かい械 contraption

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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.

#62 戈 halberd