詩 — poem, poetry

し詩 poem

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 13 strokes

U+8A69 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1196 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #370 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

poem
poetry

word

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

詩(し) shi poem 詩(し) 人(じん) shijin poet 詩(し) 集(しゅう) shishuu poetry collection

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

げん言 say #149

てら寺 temple

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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.

#149 言 speech