芽 — bud, sprout, spear

め芽 bud

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes

U+82BD Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1691 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #2054 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

bud
sprout
spear
germ

word

め me 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).

芽(め) me bud 芽(め) 生(ば) える mebaeru to sprout

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

艹 grass

きば牙 tusk #92

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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.

#140 艸 grass