迷 — astray, be perplexed, in doubt

まよう迷 astray

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes

U+8FF7 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #942 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #992 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

astray
be perplexed
in doubt
lost
err
illusion

word

まよ mayo 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).

迷(まよ) う mayou to be lost 迷(まよ) い mayoi hesitation

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

低(てい) 迷(めい) teimei slump 迷(めい) 惑(わく) meiwaku nuisance

Appears in idioms

迷惑千万四字熟語

astray, beguile, thousand, ten thousand

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

こめ米 rice #119

辶 road

Used as component in (1)

なぞ謎 riddle

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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.

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