誕 — nativity, be born, declension

たん誕 nativity

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 15 strokes

U+8A95 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1024 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #420 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

nativity
be born
declension
lie
be arbitrary

word

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

誕(たん) 生(じょう) tanjou birth 生(せい) 誕(たん) seitan birth

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

げん言 say #149

のびる延 prolong

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#149 言 speech