沖 — open sea, offing, rise high into sky

おき沖 open sea

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

U+6C96 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #929 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #146 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

open sea
offing
rise high into sky

word

おき oki 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).

沖(おき) oki open sea 沖(おき) 縄(なわ) okinawa Okinawa

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

氵 water (left form)

なか中 middle

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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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