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猿 — monkey

さる猿 monkey

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 13 strokes animal

U+733F Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1772 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #430 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

monkey

word

さる saru 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).

猿(さる) saru monkey

Appears in idioms

猿も木から落ちる諺

Even monkeys fall from trees

Stroke order

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Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

犭 dog/beast (left form)

袁 long robe

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.