敬 — awe, respect, honor

けい敬 awe

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

U+656C Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1078 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #356 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

awe
respect
honor
revere

word

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

敬(けい) kei respect 尊(そん) 敬(けい) sonkei respect 敬(けい) 意(い) keii respect 敬(けい) 遠(えん) keien avoidance 敬(けい) 語(ご) keigo honorific language 畏(い) 敬(けい) ikei reverence

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

苟 if

攵 strike

Used as component in (2)

けい警 admonish おどろく驚 wonder

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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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