# 再 — Again

Frequency rank 435 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

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

More common than 増 (Increase), less common than 細 (Thin).

- On’yomi: さい
- Kun’yomi: ふたた
- Radical: 冂 Wide (Kangxi 13)
- Frequency path: Level IV of XX

The character looks like a frame with internal divisions — two horizontal bars are crossed by vertical lines, as if something is being done over again, a visual of repetition.

In words:

- 再 さい — re-;again;repeated
- 再び ふたたび — again,once more,a second time
- 再三 さいさん — again and again,repeatedly

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