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昼 — daytime, noon

ひる昼 daytime

Grade 2 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes time

U+663C Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1115 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1069 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

daytime
noon

word

ひる hiru 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).

昼(ひる) hiru daytime 昼(ひる) 間(ま) hiruma daytime お昼(ひる) ohiru noon 昼(ひる) 休(やす) み hiruyasumi lunch break 昼(ひる) 飯(めし) hirumeshi lunch 昼(ひる) 過(す) ぎ hirusugi early afternoon 昼(ひる) 寝(ね) hirune nap

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

昼(ちゅう) 食(しょく) chuushoku lunch

Stroke order

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Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

しゃく尺 shaku (unit)

たん旦 daybreak

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.