幾 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Origin of the character

象形。初文は「⿰奚戈」や「⿰奚戌」で、戈で奴隷(奚)の首を斬って殺害するさまを象る。のち辮髪の部分が繁化して「幾」の字形となる。「ころす」を意味する漢語{刏}を表す字。のち仮借して「いくつ」を意味する漢語{幾}などに用いる。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

how many, how much, how far, how long, some, several

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • JHS
Kun (native)
  • いく〜JHS
  • いく(つ)
  • いく(ら)
Nanori (used in names)
Other languages
  • 拼音ji3
  • 拼音ji1
  • 한글gi
  • Hán-ViệtKi
  • Hán-ViệtKỉ
  • Hán-Việt

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

Basics

Strokes
12 strokes
Radical
广(まだれ)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+5E7E

Components

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

Composition (IDS): enclosure ⿹⿶戈𢆶人

Words using this kanji

  • 幾ついくつhow many, how old
  • 幾何学きかがく図形や空間の性質に関する研究を行う学問。数学の一分野。幾何。geometry
  • 幾分いくぶんいくつかに分けること。また、その分けた一部分。 いくらか、少し。somewhat, to some extent, to some degree, some
  • 幾らいくらhow much, something over, and something, -odd
  • 幾何きか幾何学の略。 いくばく 参照。geometry
  • いくsome, several, a few, many
  • 幾日いくにち(for) how many days, what day (of the month)
  • 幾度いくどどれくらいの程度。何回。 多くの回数。(how) many times, (how) often
  • 幾つかいくつか(a) few, some, several
  • 幾重いくえ「いくえ」を参照。piling up, multiple layers
  • 幾多いくたmany, numerous
  • 幾千いくせんthousands
  • 幾人いくにんhow many people
  • 幾年いくねんどれくらいの年数。 何年もの間。number of years
  • 幾夜いくよhow many nights, some nights, several nights, a number of nights
  • 幾世いくよgenerations, ages, years
  • 幾歳いくさいどれくらいの(年単位の)期間。 何年もの期間。how old, what age
  • 幾月いくつきhow many months
  • 幾つもいくつもmany, much, plenty, hardly
  • 幾らかいくらかsome, (a) little, somewhat, to some extent

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(80 results)

Lookup codes

SKIP
4-12-4
Four Corner
2245.3
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4n8.4
Heisig
1481
Nelson
1496