盲 — blind, blindness

もう盲 blind

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes

U+76F2 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1767 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #525 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Post

Meanings

blind
blindness

Readings

On'yomi: もう mou
Kun'yomi: めくら mekura

word

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

盲(もう) 目(もく) moumoku blindness

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

なくす亡 death

め目 eye #109

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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.

#109 目 eye