祝 — celebrate, congratulate

しゅく祝 celebrate

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes calendar

U+795D Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1184 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1170 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

celebrate
congratulate

word

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

祝(しゅく) shuku celebration 祝(しゅく) 日(じつ) shukujitsu national holiday 祝(しゅく) 福(ふく) shukufuku blessing

いわ iwa 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).

お祝(いわ) い oiwai celebration 祝(いわ) う iwau to celebrate 祝(いわ) い iwai celebration

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

礻 altar/spirit (left form)

あに兄 elder brother

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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.

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