浴 — bathe, be favored with, bask in

よく浴 bathe

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes

U+6D74 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1136 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #852 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

bathe
be favored with
bask in

word

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

浴(よく) yoku bathing 入(にゅう) 浴(よく) nyuuyoku bathing

あ a 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).

浴(あ) びる abiru to bathe in 浴(あ) びせる abiseru to pour on

Jukujikun Jukujikun Jukujikun (熟字訓) — special readings where the pronunciation applies to the whole compound word rather than individual kanji. The reading cannot be split per character.

浴衣(ゆかた) yukata yukata

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

氵 water (left form)

たに谷 valley #150

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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.

#85 水 water