液 — fluid, liquid, juice

えき液 fluid

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 11 strokes

U+6DB2 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1210 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1116 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

fluid
liquid
juice
sap
secretion

word

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

液(えき) eki liquid 血(けつ) 液(えき) ketsueki blood 液(えき) 体(たい) ekitai liquid 液(えき) 晶(しょう) ekishou liquid crystal 唾(だ) 液(えき) daeki saliva

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

氵 water (left form)

よる夜 night

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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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