朽 — decay, rot, remain in seclusion

くちる朽 decay

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 6 strokes

U+673D Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1891 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1331 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

decay
rot
remain in seclusion

word

く ku 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).

朽(く) ちる kuchiru to rot

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

き木 tree #75

丂 breath

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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.

#75 木 tree