# 別 — Separate

Frequency rank 164 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Common in published Japanese. A handful of these and real text starts to open.

More common than 連 (Take Along), less common than 政 (Politics).

- On’yomi: べつ
- Kun’yomi: わか
- Radical: 刀 Knife (Kangxi 18)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX

The hatch-mouth in the wall bites down on a stool leg and the fishmonger's broad blade comes across the wrist behind it without slowing.

In words:

- 別 べつ — different
- 別れる わかれる — to separate
- 別に べつに — (not) particularly,nothing

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