紀 — chronicle, account, narrative

き紀 chronicle

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

U+7D00 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #780 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1454 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

chronicle
account
narrative
history
annals
geologic period

word

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

紀(き) ki era 世(せい) 紀(き) seiki century 紀(き) 行(こう) kikou travelogue 紀(き) 元(げん) 前(ぜん) kigenzen B.C. 由(ゆ) 紀(き) 夫(お) yukio Yukio (male given name)

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

いと糸 thread #120

おのれ己 self #49

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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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