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禄

禄 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. さいわい。
  2. ふち。給与。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

「祿」の異体字。祿#字源の項目を参照。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

fief, allowance, pension, grant, happiness

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ロク
Kun (native)
  • さいわ(い)
  • ふち
Nanori (used in names)
  • とし
  • よし
Other languages
  • 拼音lu4
  • 한글rog
  • Hán-ViệtLộc

Basics

Strokes
12 strokes
Radical
示(しめす)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+7984

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰示录

Words using this kanji

  • 禄ろく（ロク、ふち）給与。狭義では、官に仕える者に支給される給与。 （ロク）当座の賞与。stipend (paid to court officials, samurai, etc.), salary, fief, feudal pay
  • 禄高ろくだか(amount of a samurai's) stipend
  • 禄を食むろくをはむ給料を受けて生活する。仕官して俸禄を貰う。to get a salary (from), to receive a stipend (from), to be on the payroll (of)

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(34 results)

Similar-looking kanji

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-4-8
Four Corner
3723.2
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4e8.2
Heisig
2648
Nelson
3250