頴 — readings, stroke count and radical

  • Non-Jōyō kanji
  • 16 strokes

Stroke order

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

Origin of the character

後世に「穎」字の「禾」が変化した異体字。「くき」を意味する漢語、{穎}を表す。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

heads of grain, cleverness

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • エイ
Kun (native)
  • ほさき
  • のぎ
Nanori (used in names)
  • かい
Other languages
  • 拼音ying3
  • 한글yeong
  • Hán-ViệtDĩnh
  • Hán-ViệtNhánh
  • Hán-ViệtNhảnh

Basics

Strokes
16 strokes
Radical
示(しめす)
JIS level
Level 1
Unicode
U+9834

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰𥘈頁

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-7-9
Four Corner
2198.6
Spahn–Hadamitzky
9a7.5