飾 — decorate, ornament, adorn

かざる飾 decorate

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 13 strokes

U+98FE Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1193 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1587 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

decorate
ornament
adorn
embellish

word

かざ kaza 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).

飾(かざ) る kazaru to decorate 飾(かざ) り kazari decoration

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

装(そう) 飾(しょく) soushoku decoration 粉(ふん) 飾(しょく) funshoku embellishment

Appears in idioms

粉飾決算四字熟語

flour, decorate, decide, calculate

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

飠 food (left form)

𠂉 hairpin

きん巾 towel #50

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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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