栄 — flourish, prosperity, honor

えい栄 flourish

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes

U+6804 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #920 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #348 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

flourish
prosperity
honor
glory
splendor

word

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

栄(えい) ei prosperity 栄(えい) 養(よう) eiyou nutrition 栄(えい) 光(こう) eikou glory 光(こう) 栄(えい) kouei honor 繁(はん) 栄(えい) hanei prosperity

さか saka 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).

栄(さか) える sakaeru to prosper

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ちいさい小 little #42

冖 cover

き木 tree #75

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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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