劑 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. 板を2つに割り照合に用いたもの、割符、手形。
  2. (木の根や木皮を切りそろえ用いたことから)薬。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「刀」+音符「齊」。「割く」「断つ」を意味する漢語{劑}を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

medicine, drug, dose

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ザイ
  • スイ
  • セイ
Kun (native)
  • かる
  • けず(る)
Other languages
  • 拼音ji4
  • 한글je
  • 한글ja
  • Hán-ViệtTề

Basics

Strokes
16 strokes
Radical
刀(かたな)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+5291

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰齊刂

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-14-2
Four Corner
0220.0
Spahn–Hadamitzky
2f8.6