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援 — abet, help, save

えん援 abet

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

U+63F4 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #312 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #2101 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

abet
help
save

word

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

応(おう) 援(えん) ouen support 支(し) 援(えん) shien support 援(えん) 助(じょ) enjo assistance 後(こう) 援(えん) kouen support 救(きゅう) 援(えん) kyuuen rescue 声(せい) 援(えん) seien cheering 援(えん) 護(ご) engo covering fire

Appears in idioms

孤立無援四字熟語

orphan, stand, nothingness, abet

Stroke order

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Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

扌 hand (left form)

爰 change

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.