揮 — brandish, wave, wag

き揮 brandish

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 12 strokes

U+63EE Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #946 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #715 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

brandish
wave
wag
swing
shake

word

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

発(はっ) 揮(き) hakki demonstration 指(し) 揮(き) shiki command

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

扌 hand (left form)

ぐん軍 army

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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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