彦 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning

lad, boy, fine young man

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ゲン
Kun (native)
  • ひこ
Nanori (used in names)
  • よし
  • ひろ
  • やす
Other languages
  • 拼音yan4
  • 한글eon
  • Hán-ViệtNgạn
  • Hán-ViệtNgán
  • Hán-ViệtNgàn

Basics

Strokes
9 strokes
Radical
彳(ぎょうにんべん)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+5F66

Components

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

Composition (IDS): enclosure ⿸产彡

Words using this kanji

  • ひこboy
  • 彦星ひこぼしAltair (star in the constellation Aquila), Alpha Aquilae
  • 彦頁ひこページface

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(10 results)

Similar-looking kanji

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

Lookup codes

SKIP
3-6-3
Four Corner
0022.2
Spahn–Hadamitzky
5b4.4
Heisig
1852
Nelson
3347