育 — bring up, grow up, raise

いく育 bring up

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes

U+80B2 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #369 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #821 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

bring up
grow up
raise
rear

word

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

育(いく) iku raising 教(きょう) 育(いく) kyouiku education 体(たい) 育(いく) taiiku physical education 体(たい) 育(いく) 館(かん) taiikukan gymnasium 生(せい) 育(いく) seiiku growth 育(いく) 毛(もう) ikumou hair growth 育(いく) 成(せい) ikusei nurturing 育(いく) 児(じ) ikuji childcare

そだ soda 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).

育(そだ) てる sodateru to raise 育(そだ) つ sodatsu to grow up 子(こ) 育(そだ) て kosodate child-rearing 育(そだ) ち sodachi upbringing

はぐく haguku 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).

育(はぐく) む hagukumu to nurture

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

亠 lid

厶 private

つき月 month #74

Used as component in (2)

てっ撤 remove てつ徹 penetrate

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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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