紀 — 9 strokes / Radical「糸」
道6Elementary year 5 / 9 strokes / Radical「糸」
- On
- キ
- Kun
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- Meaning
- chronicle; era; account
Origin
糸 "thread" plus 己; putting the thread-ends in order — hence "to set in order, a chronicle, an era."
Stroke order
Readings and examples
| キ | 紀行・紀元・風紀 |
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Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.
Compounds
- 世紀せいき
century
- 紀行きこう
travel account
Example
二十一世紀に生まれた。
I was born in the twenty-first century.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)