殖 — augment, increase, multiply

しょく殖 augment

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

U+6B96 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1362 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #874 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

augment
increase
multiply
raise

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).

増(ぞう) 殖(しょく) zoushoku proliferation 繁(はん) 殖(しょく) hanshoku breeding 生(せい) 殖(しょく) seishoku reproduction 養(よう) 殖(しょく) youshoku aquaculture

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

歹 death

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.

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