測 — fathom, plan, scheme

はかる測 fathom

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 12 strokes

U+6E2C Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #761 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #160 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

fathom
plan
scheme
measure

word

はか haka 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).

測(はか) る hakaru to measure

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

予(よ) 測(そく) yosoku prediction 測(そく) 定(てい) sokutei measurement 観(かん) 測(そく) kansoku observation 計(けい) 測(そく) keisoku measurement 測(そく) 量(りょう) sokuryou surveying 推(すい) 測(そく) suisoku guess 憶(おく) 測(そく) okusoku conjecture

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

氵 water (left form)

そく則 rule

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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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