英 — england, english, hero

えい英 england

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

U+82F1 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #430 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1878 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

england
english
hero
outstanding
calyx

word

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

英(えい) ei England 英(えい) 語(ご) eigo English (language) 英(えい) 国(こく) eikoku United Kingdom 英(えい) 会(かい) 話(わ) eikaiwa English conversation 英(えい) 文(ぶん) eibun English text 集(しゅう) 英(えい) 社(しゃ) shuueisha Shueisha 英(えい) 和(わ) eiwa English-Japanese 英(えい) 単(たん) 語(ご) eitango English word

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

艹 grass

おう央 center

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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