# 個 — Individual

Frequency rank 466 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 県 (Prefecture), less common than 横 (Side).

- On’yomi: こ
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 人 Person (Kangxi 9)
- Frequency path: Level IV of XX

A leader on the left, with a mouth stacked over old on the right — a leader counts each old mouth in the census, identifying every individual person.

In words:

- 個 か — article counter
- 個々 ここ — individual;one by one
- 個人 こじん — individual,private person,personal,private

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