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祐

祐 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. （神など人知を超えた存在が）たすける。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「示」+音符「右」。「たすける」を意味する漢語｛祐｝を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

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English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ユウ
  • ウ
Kun (native)
  • たす(ける)
Nanori (used in names)
  • すけ
  • さち
  • よし
  • たすく
  • ひろ
  • ひろし
  • まさ
Other languages
  • 拼音you4
  • 한글u
  • Hán-ViệtHữu

Basics

Strokes
9 strokes
Radical
示(しめす)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+7950

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰示右

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-4-5
Four Corner
3426.0
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4e5.3
Heisig
2645
Nelson
3240