秀 — excel, excellence, beauty

しゅう秀 excel

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes

U+79C0 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #848 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #980 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

excel
excellence
beauty
surpass

word

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

秀(しゅう) shuu excellence 優(ゆう) 秀(しゅう) yuushuu excellent 最(さい) 優(ゆう) 秀(しゅう) saiyuushuu best 秀(しゅう) 逸(いつ) shuuitsu excellent

ひで hide 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).

秀(ひで) 吉(よし) hideyoshi Hideyoshi (given name) 秀(ひで) 雄(お) hideo Hideo (male given name)

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

禾 grain

乃 to be

Used as component in (2)

さそう誘 entice とう透 transparent

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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.

#115 禾 grain