更 — grow late, night watch, sit up late

さら更 grow late

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes

U+66F4 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #861 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #749 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

grow late
night watch
sit up late
of course
renew
renovate
again
more and more
further

word

さら sara 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).

更(さら) sara furthermore 更(さら) に sarani furthermore 今(いま) 更(さら) imasara now (after all this time)

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

更(こう) 新(しん) koushin renewal 変(へん) 更(こう) henkou change 更(こう) 生(せい) kousei rehabilitation 更(こう) 迭(てつ) koutetsu shake-up

Appears in idioms

自力更生四字熟語

self, power, grow late, life

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ひ日 sun #72

乂 govern

いち一 one #1

Used as component in (3)

べん便 convenience かたい硬 stiff こう梗 for the most part

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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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