矢 — arrow, dart, vow

や矢 arrow

Grade 2 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 5 strokes

U+77E2 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1294 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1219 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories. Radical #111

Meanings

arrow
dart
vow

word

や ya 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).

矢(や) ya arrow 矢(や) 野(の) yano Yano (surname) 矢(や) 先(さき) yasaki just when 無(む) 理矢(や) 理(り) muriyari forcibly 矢(や) 印(じるし) yajirushi arrow sign

Appears in idioms

光陰矢のごとし諺

Time is like an arrow

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Atomic component This kanji has no further breakdown — it's a primitive building block used to compose others.

Used as component in (9)

しる知 know ぞく族 tribe い医 doctor みじかい短 short そうろう候 climate うたがう疑 doubt しっ疾 rapidly きょう矯 rectify こう侯 marquis

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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.

#111 矢 arrow