江 — creek, inlet, bay

え江 creek

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 6 strokes

U+6C5F Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #704 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #148 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

creek
inlet
bay

word

え e 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).

江(え) e inlet 江(え) 戸(ど) edo Edo (old name for Tokyo) 堀(ほり) 江(え) horie Horie (surname/place name)

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

氵 water (left form)

こう工 work #48

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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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