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毎 — every, each

まい毎 every

Grade 2 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes time

U+6BCE Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #436 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #497 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

every
each

word

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

毎(まい) mai every 毎(まい) 日(にち) mainichi every day 毎(まい) 年(とし) maitoshi every year 毎(まい) 回(かい) maikai every time 毎(まい) 月(つき) maitsuki every month 毎(まい) 日(にち) 新(しん) 聞(ぶん) mainichishinbun Mainichi Shimbun 毎(まい) 週(しゅう) maishuu every week 毎(まい) 朝(あさ) maiasa every morning

Stroke order

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Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

丿 slash

毋 mother

𠂉 hairpin

はは母 mother

Used as component in (5)

うみ海 sea うめ梅 plum びん敏 cleverness くやむ悔 repent ぶ侮 scorn

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.