浪 — wandering, waves, billows

なみ浪 wandering

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes

U+6D6A Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1508 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1580 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

wandering
waves
billows
reckless
unrestrained

word

なみ nami 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).

浪(なみ) nami wave

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

浪(ろう) 費(ひ) rouhi waste 放(ほう) 浪(ろう) hourou wandering

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

氵 water (left form)

よい良 good

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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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