磨 — grind, polish, scour

みがく磨 grind

みがく

U+78E8 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1608 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #638 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

grind
polish
scour
improve
brush

Readings

On'yomi: ま ma
Kun'yomi: みが miga す su

word

みが miga 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).

磨(みが) く migaku to polish 歯(は) 磨(みが) き hamigaki tooth brushing 磨(みが) き migaki polish

Words by frequency and grade

3 words

Each dot is a word containing 磨: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 2 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Appears in idioms

切磋琢磨四字熟語

cut file, carve polish

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

あさ麻 hemp #200

いし石 stone #112

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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.

#112 石 stone