鮮 — fresh, vivid, clear

あざやか鮮 fresh

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 17 strokes

U+9BAE Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #355 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #590 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

fresh
vivid
clear
brilliant
korea

word

あざ aza 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).

鮮(あざ) やか azayaka vivid

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

北(きた) 朝(ちょう) 鮮(せん) kitachousen North Korea 朝(ちょう) 鮮(せん) chousen Korea 新(しん) 鮮(せん) shinsen fresh 朝(ちょう) 鮮(せん) 半(はん) 島(とう) chousenhantou Korean Peninsula 鮮(せん) 明(めい) senmei vivid

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

さかな魚 fish #195

ひつじ羊 sheep #123

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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.

#195 魚 fish