菜 — vegetable, side dish, greens

な菜 vegetable

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 11 strokes plant food

U+83DC Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1327 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #793 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

vegetable
side dish
greens

word

な na 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).

菜(な) na greens

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

野(や) 菜(さい) yasai vegetables

Appears in idioms

一汁一菜四字熟語

one, juice, one, vegetable

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

艹 grass

さい采 dice

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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