昧 — dark, foolish

まい昧 dark

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes

U+6627 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Heisig #231 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

dark
foolish

word

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

曖(あい) 昧(まい) aimai ambiguous 三(ざん) 昧(まい) zanmai indulgence

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ひ日 sun #72

み未 not yet

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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