脈 — vein, pulse, hope

みゃく脈 vein

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes

U+8108 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1477 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #2000 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

vein
pulse
hope

word

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

文(ぶん) 脈(みゃく) bunmyaku context 人(じん) 脈(みゃく) jinmyaku personal connections 動(どう) 脈(みゃく) doumyaku artery

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

つき月 month #74

𠂢 branching streams

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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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