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蜜 — honey, nectar, molasses

みつ蜜 honey

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 14 strokes

U+871C Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #2203 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #838 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

honey
nectar
molasses

word

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

蜜(みつ) mitsu honey

Appears in idioms

甘言蜜語四字熟語

sweet, say, honey, language

Stroke order

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Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

宓 quiet

むし虫 insect #142

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.

#142 虫 insect