香 — incense, smell, perfume

か香 incense

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

U+9999 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #859 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #977 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories. Radical #186

Meanings

incense
smell
perfume

word

か ka 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).

香(か) ka fragrance 香(か) 川(がわ) kagawa Kagawa (prefecture/surname)

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

香(こう) 水(すい) kousui perfume

かお kao 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).

香(かお) り kaori fragrance

ほん hon 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).

香(ほん) 港(こん) honkon Hong Kong

Jukujikun Jukujikun Jukujikun (熟字訓) — special readings where the pronunciation applies to the whole compound word rather than individual kanji. The reading cannot be split per character.

明日香(あすか) asuka Asuka (place/given name)

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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.

#186 香 fragrance