塀 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. へい

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「土」+音符「屏」。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

fence, wall, (kokuji)

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ヘイJHS
  • ベイ
Other languages
  • 한글byeong
  • Hán-ViệtBình

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
12 strokes
Radical
土(つち)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+5840

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰土屏

Words using this kanji

  • へい(ヘイ)主に屋外にあって、板や土壁により、往来と所有地を画し、外から見えなくさせる構築物。wall, fence
  • 塀越しへいごしover a wall, crossing a fence
  • 塀の中へいのなかplace surrounded by walls, (within) prison
  • 塀を巡らすへいをめぐらすto fence in, to surround with a wall

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(14 results)

Similar-looking kanji

Selected automatically by comparing composition (IDS). “Same composition” means the parts and their arrangement match.

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-3-9
Four Corner
4714.1
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3b9.11
Heisig
1136
Nelson
1131