航 — navigate, sail, cruise

こう航 navigate

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

U+822A Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #665 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #2014 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

navigate
sail
cruise
fly

word

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

航(こう) 空(くう) koukuu aviation 航(こう) 空(くう) 機(き) koukuuki aircraft 航(こう) 海(かい) koukai voyage 運(うん) 航(こう) unkou service 渡(と) 航(こう) tokou voyage

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ふね舟 boat #137

亢 high

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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.

#137 舟 boat