灰 — ashes, puckery juice, cremate

はい灰 ashes

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

U+7070 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1717 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #180 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

ashes
puckery juice
cremate

word

はい hai 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).

灰(はい) hai ash 灰(はい) 色(いろ) haiiro gray

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

厂 cliff

ひ火 fire #86

Used as component in (1)

すみ炭 charcoal

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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.

#86 火 fire