航 — navigate, sail, cruise

こう航 navigate

こう

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.

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Meanings

navigate
sail
cruise
fly

Readings

On'yomi: こう kou

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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 航(こう) 法(ほう) kouhou sailing 航(こう) 空(くう) 会(がい) 社(しゃ) koukuugaisha airline company 航(こう) 空(くう) 便(びん) koukuubin air service 航(こう) 行(こう) koukou cruise

Words by frequency and grade

15 words

Each dot is a word containing 航: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 10 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

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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