臨 — look to, face, meet

のぞむ臨 look to

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 18 strokes

U+81E8 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #722 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #918 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

look to
face
meet
confront
attend
call on

word

のぞ nozo 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).

臨(のぞ) む nozomu to face

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

臨(りん) 時(じ) rinji temporary 臨(りん) 床(しょう) rinshou clinical

Appears in idioms

臨機応変四字熟語

look to, loom, apply, unusual

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

じん臣 retainer #131

𠂉 hairpin

しな品 goods

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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.

#131 臣 minister