癸 — 9 strokes ／ Radical「癶」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 9 strokes ／ Radical「癶」
- On
- キ
- Kun
- みずのと
- Meaning
- the tenth of the ten stems
Origin
Originally a pictograph of arrowheads pointing four ways; borrowed for the tenth of the ten stems.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 癸みずのと
the tenth stem
- 癸亥みずのとい
the sixtieth of the cycle
Example
癸の年に生まれたという。
They are said to have been born in a year of that stem.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)