摩 — chafe, rub, polish

ま摩 chafe

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

U+6469 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1252 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #689 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

chafe
rub
polish
grind
scrape

word

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

摩(ま) 擦(さつ) masatsu friction 多(た) 摩(ま) tama Tama (place name)

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

あさ麻 hemp #200

て手 hand #64

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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.

#64 手 hand