握 — grip, hold, mould sushi

にぎる握 grip

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

U+63E1 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1003 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1139 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

grip
hold
mould sushi
bribe

word

にぎ nigi 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).

握(にぎ) る nigiru to grip 握(にぎ) り nigiri grip

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

把(は) 握(あく) haaku grasp 握(あく) 手(しゅ) akushu handshake

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

扌 hand (left form)

や屋 roof

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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.

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