滋 — nourishing, more & more, be luxuriant

し滋 nourishing

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

U+6ECB Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1563 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1489 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

nourishing
more & more
be luxuriant
planting
turbidity

word

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

滋(し) 賀(が) shiga Shiga

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

氵 water (left form)

兹 this

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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