紺 — dark blue, navy

こん紺 dark blue

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 11 strokes

U+7D3A Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1825 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1895 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

dark blue
navy

word

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

紺(こん) 色(いろ) koniro dark blue

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

いと糸 thread #120

あまえる甘 sweet #99

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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.

#120 糸 thread