益 — benefit, gain, profit

えき益 benefit

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes

U+76CA Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #674 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #2026 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

benefit
gain
profit
advantage

word

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

益(えき) eki benefit 利(り) 益(えき) rieki profit 公(こう) 益(えき) koueki public interest 有(ゆう) 益(えき) yuueki beneficial 国(こく) 益(えき) kokueki national interest 損(そん) 益(えき) soneki profit and loss 不(ふ) 利(り) 益(えき) furieki disadvantage 受(じゅ) 益(えき) jueki benefit

ます masu 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).

益(ます) 々 masumasu increasingly

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

はち八 eight #12

さら皿 dish #108

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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.

#108 皿 dish