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碧

碧 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. あおみどり。藍色に近い緑。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声文字、音符「珀」+ 「石」。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

blue, green

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ヘキ
  • ヒャク
Nanori (used in names)
  • みどり
  • あお
  • たま
Other languages
  • 拼音bi4
  • 한글byeog
  • Hán-ViệtBích

Basics

Strokes
14 strokes
Radical
石(いし)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+78A7

Components

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

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱珀石

Words using this kanji

  • 碧眼へきがん青い目。特に、欧米人の目。 欧米人。西洋人。blue eyes
  • 碧玉へきぎょく青や緑の玉。 酸化鉄や水酸化鉄などの不純物を含む石英。jasper
  • 碧空へきくう碧い空。blue sky, azure sky
  • 碧山へきざんgreen mountains
  • 碧水へきすいblue water, green water
  • 碧色へきしょくgreen, emerald
  • 碧雲へきうんbluish cloud, azure sky, blue sky
  • 碧海へきかいblue sea, blue expanse of water
  • 碧螺春へきらしゅんbiluochun (green tea var. grown in Jiangsu, China)
  • 碧巌録へきがんろくBlue Cliff Record, Biyan Lu (collection of Zen Buddhist koans compiled in China during the Song Dynasty)
  • 碧眼紅毛へきがんこうもうblue eyes and red hair, Westerner
  • 碧羅の天へきらのてんclear blue sky, cloudless sky

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(19 results)

Lookup codes

SKIP
2-9-5
Four Corner
1660.1
Spahn–Hadamitzky
5a9.7
Heisig
2634
Nelson
3208