貯 — savings, store, lay in

ためる貯 savings

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 12 strokes money

U+8CAF Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1100 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #206 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

savings
store
lay in
keep
wear mustache

word

た ta 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).

貯(た) める tameru to save up 貯(た) まる tamaru to be saved up

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

貯(ちょ) 金(きん) chokin savings 貯(ちょ) 蔵(ぞう) chozou storage 郵(ゆう) 貯(ちょ) yuucho postal savings 貯(ちょ) 蓄(ちく) chochiku savings

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

かい貝 shellfish #154

宁 storehouse

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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.

#154 貝 shell