梅 — plum

うめ梅 plum

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes

U+6885 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1232 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #499 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

plum

word

うめ ume 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).

梅(うめ) ume plum 梅(うめ) 田(だ) umeda Umeda

Jukujikun Jukujikun Jukujikun (熟字訓) — special readings where the pronunciation applies to the whole compound word rather than individual kanji. The reading cannot be split per character.

梅雨(つゆ) tsuyu rainy season

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

き木 tree #75

まい毎 every

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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