類 — 18 strokes ／ Radical「頁」
道7Elementary year 4 ／ 18 strokes ／ Radical「頁」
- On
- ルイるい · rui
- Kun
- たぐいtagui
- Meaning
- kind; sort; type; similar
Stroke order
Origin
Phonetic-semantic: 犬 (dog) with 頪 for sound; like dogs of the same kind, a grouping of similar things, hence 'kind/type'.
Readings and examples
| Onルイるいrui | 類型るいけい種類しゅるい分類ぶんるい |
|---|---|
| Kunたぐいtagui | 類いたぐい○○の類い○○のたぐい |
Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.
Compounds
- 種類しゅるい
kind; variety
- 分類ぶんるい
classification
- 衣類いるい
- 類似るいじ
- 類人猿るいじんえん
- 藻類そうるい
- 麺類めんるい
- 哺乳類ほにゅうるい
Example
本を 種類ごとに 分ける。
I sort the books by kind.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)