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秒 — second

びょう秒 second

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes time

U+79D2 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1015 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #965 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

second

word

ひょう・びょう hyou On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

秒(びょう) byou second (time)

Stroke order

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9

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

禾 grain

しょう少 few

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.