震 — quake, shake, tremble

ふるえる震 quake

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

U+9707 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #893 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #2166 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

quake
shake
tremble
quiver
shiver

word

ふる furu 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).

震(ふる) える furueru to tremble

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

地(じ) 震(しん) jishin earthquake 耐(たい) 震(しん) taishin earthquake resistant 震(しん) 災(さい) shinsai earthquake disaster 大(だい) 震(しん) 災(さい) daishinsai great earthquake disaster 震(しん) 度(ど) shindo seismic intensity

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

あめ雨 rain #173

辰 morning

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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.

#173 雨 rain