斎 — purification, study room, ceremonial hall

さい斎 purification

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 11 strokes

U+658E Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1155 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1869 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

purification
study room
ceremonial hall
religious abstinence

Readings

On'yomi: さい sai
Kun'yomi: とき toki つつし tsutsushi ものいみ monoimi い i いわ iwa いつ itsu

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

斎(さい) sai purification 斎(さい) 藤(とう) saitou Saito (surname) 書(しょ) 斎(さい) shosai study room

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

せい斉 adjusted

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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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