昆 — descendants, elder brother, insect

こん昆 descendants

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes

U+6606 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1688 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #483 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

descendants
elder brother
insect

word

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

昆(こん) 虫(ちゅう) konchuu insect 昆(こん) 布(ぶ) konbu kelp

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ひ日 sun #72

くらべる比 compare #81

Used as component in (1)

こむ混 mix

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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.

#72 日 sun