易 — easy, ready to, simple

やさしい易 easy

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes

U+6613 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #571 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1130 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

easy
ready to
simple
fortune-telling
divination

word

やさ yasa 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).

易(やさ) しい yasashii easy

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

容(よう) 易(い) youi easy 安(あん) 易(い) ani easy 簡(かん) 易(い) kani simple 難(なん) 易(い) nani difficulty

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

貿(ぼう) 易(えき) boueki trade 交(こう) 易(えき) koueki trade 易(えき) eki divination

やす yasu 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).

易(やす) い yasui easy

Appears in idioms

案ずるより産むが易し諺

Giving birth is easier than worrying about it

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ひ日 sun #72

勿 do not

Used as component in (1)

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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