# 号 — Number

Frequency rank 162 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

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

More common than 政 (Politics), less common than 能 (Ability).

- On’yomi: ごう
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 口 Mouth (Kangxi 30)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX
- School grade: 3
- Strokes: 5

The wet square hatch opens under the stairs, props itself wide on a jammed umbrella, and starts bawling figures at the ration queue: forty-one, forty-two, forty-three.

In words:

- 号 ごう — number;issue
- 番号 ばんごう — number
- 信号 しんごう — traffic lights,signal,semaphore

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