散 — scatter, disperse, spend

ちる散 scatter

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 12 strokes

U+6563 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #758 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1273 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

scatter
disperse
spend
squander

word

ち chi 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).

散(ち) る chiru to scatter 散(ち) らす chirasu to scatter

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

散(さん) 歩(ぽ) sanpo walk 分(ぶん) 散(さん) bunsan dispersion 散(さん) 々 sanzan severely 散(さん) 会(かい) sankai adjournment 発(はっ) 散(さん) hassan emission 解(かい) 散(さん) kaisan dissolution 散(さん) 策(さく) sansaku stroll 拡(かく) 散(さん) kakusan diffusion

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

龷 well

つき月 month #74

攵 strike

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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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