衷 — inmost, heart, mind

ちゅう衷 inmost

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes

U+8877 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #2229 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #2038 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

inmost
heart
mind
inside

word

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

折(せっ) 衷(ちゅう) secchuu compromise

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ころも衣 garment #145

くち口 mouth #30

丨 pole

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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.

#145 衣 clothes