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桁 — 10 strokes ／ Radical「木」

道
2High school graduate / general ／ 10 strokes ／ Radical「木」
On
コウこう · kō
Kun
けたketa
Meaning
beam; digit

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Wood plus spanning across: the beam laid over the pillars; also a digit’s place in a number.

OFFICIAL READINGS

Readings and examples

Kunけたketa桁違いけたちがい橋桁はしげた

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 桁違いけたちがい

    of a different order entirely

  • 橋桁はしげた

    bridge girder

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

規模(きぼ)が桁違(けたちが)いに大(おお)きい。

The scale is larger by an entire order of magnitude.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

橋桁桁違い桁橋bridge違differ枕pillow柿persim…柵fence梗block…椅chair勾bend尻buttoc…虹rainbo…喉throat蓋lid
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 木Map of reading コウAll maps

Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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