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灯 — lamp, a light, light

ひ灯 lamp

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 6 strokes home

U+706F Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1605 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #177 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

lamp
a light
light
counter for lights

word

ひ hi 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).

灯(ひ) hi light

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

電(でん) 灯(とう) dentou electric light 点(てん) 灯(とう) tentou lighting

Appears in idioms

灯台下暗し諺

It is darkest under the lighthouse

Stroke order

1
2
3
4
5
6

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ひ火 fire #86

ちょう丁 nail

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.