# 告 — Announce

Frequency rank 324 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

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

More common than 消 (Extinguish), less common than 位 (Rank).

- On’yomi: こく
- Kun’yomi: つ
- Radical: 口 Mouth (Kangxi 30)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX
- School grade: 5
- Strokes: 7

A slide drops down through dirt into a waiting mouth — someone slides through the dirt and announces their arrival loudly through the open mouth below.

In words:

- 告げる つげる — to inform
- 告白 こくはく — confession;acknowledgement
- 広告 こうこく — advertisement

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