植 — plant

しょく植 plant

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 12 strokes plant

U+690D Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #699 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #217 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

plant

word

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

植(しょく) shoku planting 植(しょく) 物(ぶつ) shokubutsu plant 入(にゅう) 植(しょく) nyuushoku settlement 植(しょく) 民(みん) shokumin colonization 移(い) 植(しょく) ishoku transplant

う u 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).

植(う) える ueru to plant 田(た) 植(う) え taue rice planting

うえ ue 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).

植(うえ) 木(き) ueki garden tree

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

き木 tree #75

じき直 straight

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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