癸 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning

10th calendar sign

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
Kun (native)
  • みずのと
Other languages
  • 拼音gui3
  • 한글gye
  • Hán-ViệtQuý

Basics

Strokes
9 strokes
Radical
癶(はつがしら)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+7678

Components

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

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱癶天

Words using this kanji

  • みずのと。十干の10番目。10th in rank, tenth sign of the Chinese calendar
  • 癸丑みずのとうし干支の一つ。60ある干支の組合せの50番目。Water Ox (50th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1913, 1973, 2033)
  • 癸未みずのとひつじ十干十二支の20番目。Water Sheep (20th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1943, 2003, 2063)
  • 癸酉みずのととり干支の一つ。60ある干支の組合せの10番目。Water Rooster (10th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1933, 1993, 2053)
  • 癸巳みずのとみ干支の一つ。60ある干支の組合せの30番目。Water Snake (30th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1953, 2013, 2073)
  • 癸卯みずのとう干支の一つ。干支の組合せの40番目。Water Rabbit (40th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1963, 2023, 2083)
  • 癸亥みずのとい十干十二支の60番目。十干十二支の最後。Water Boar (60th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1923, 1983, 2043)

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

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Lookup codes

SKIP
2-5-4
Four Corner
1243.1
Spahn–Hadamitzky
0a9.2
Nelson
3091