頼 — trust, request

たのむ頼 trust

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 16 strokes

U+983C Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #708 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1794 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

trust
request

word

たの tano 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).

頼(たの) む tanomu to request 頼(たの) もしい tanomoshii reliable

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

信(しん) 頼(らい) shinrai trust 依(い) 頼(らい) irai request

たよ tayo 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).

頼(たよ) る tayoru to rely on 頼(たよ) り tayori reliance

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

たば束 bundle

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Used as component in (1)

せ瀬 rapids

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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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