置 — placement, put, set

おく置 placement

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 13 strokes technology

U+7F6E Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #277 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #895 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

placement
put
set
deposit
leave behind
keep
employ
pawn

word

お o 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).

置(お) く oku to put 前(まえ) 置(お) き maeoki preface 置(お) き場(ば) okiba storage place 置(お) き換(か) える okikaeru to replace

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

位(い) 置(ち) ichi position 配(はい) 置(ち) haichi arrangement 放(ほう) 置(ち) houchi leaving alone 位(い) 置(ち) づける ichizukeru to position 位(い) 置(ち) づけ ichizuke positioning 位(い) 置(ち) 付(づ) ける ichizukeru to position 位(い) 置(ち) 付(づ) け ichizuke positioning 設(せっ) 置(ち) secchi installation

Appears in idioms

応急措置四字熟語

apply, hurry, set aside, placement

一目も二目も置く慣用句

place even one stone, even two

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

罒 net (top form)

じき直 straight

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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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