科 — department, course, section

か科 department

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U+79D1 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #531 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1182 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

department
course
section
branch

Readings

On'yomi: か ka

word

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

科(か) ka department 科(か) 学(がく) kagaku science 科(か) 目(もく) kamoku subject 学(がっ) 科(か) gakka department 分(ぶん) 科(か) bunka subdivision 教(きょう) 科(か) 書(しょ) kyoukasho textbook 教(きょう) 科(か) kyouka school subject 外(げ) 科(か) geka surgery

Words by frequency and grade

43 words

Each dot is a word containing 科: 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 · 28 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

禾 grain

と斗 dipper #68

Compound ideograph (会意). 禾 (grain) beside 斗 (ladle/measure). Measuring grain — sorting and classifying. A department or branch of knowledge.

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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