祉 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. さいわい。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「示」+音符「止」。「さいわい」を意味する漢語{祉}を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

welfare, happiness

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • JHS
Other languages
  • 拼音zhi3
  • 한글ji
  • Hán-ViệtChỉ

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

Basics

Strokes
8 strokes
Radical
示(しめす)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+7949

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰示止

Words using this kanji

  • 祉福しふくprosperity, happiness, blessedness and joy

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(81 results)

Similar-looking kanji

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

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-4-4
Four Corner
3121.0
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4e4.1
Heisig
1172
Nelson
3232