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猫 — cat

ねこ猫 cat

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

U+732B Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1702 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #259 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

cat

word

ねこ neko 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).

猫(ねこ) neko cat

Appears in idioms

猫に小判慣用句

gold coins to a cat

Stroke order

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Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

犭 dog/beast (left form)

なえ苗 seedling

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.