肥 — fertilizer, get fat, fertile

ひ肥 fertilizer

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes

U+80A5 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1469 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1893 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

fertilizer
get fat
fertile
manure
pamper

word

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

肥(ひ) 料(りょう) hiryou fertilizer 肥(ひ) 満(まん) himan obesity 肥(ひ) 沃(よく) hiyoku fertile

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

つき月 month #74

巴 coiled snake

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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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