歴 — history, passage of time, curriculum

れき歴 history

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 14 strokes

U+6B74 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #632 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #402 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

history
passage of time
curriculum
successive

Readings

On'yomi: れき reki れっき rekki

word

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

歴(れき) reki career 歴(れき) 史(し) rekishi history 学(がく) 歴(れき) gakureki academic background 歴(れき) 代(だい) rekidai successive generations 経(けい) 歴(れき) keireki career 履(り) 歴(れき) rireki personal history

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

厂 cliff

とめる止 stop #77

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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.

#77 止 stop