# 在 — Exist

Frequency rank 185 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

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

More common than 労 (Labor), less common than 期 (Period Of Time).

- On’yomi: ざい
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 土 Earth (Kangxi 32)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX
- School grade: 5
- Strokes: 6

Surveyors write the plot down as empty ground and ram a Stick through the mound to prove nothing is under it.

In words:

- 在る ある — to live,to be
- 在学 ざいがく — (enrolled) in school
- 在庫 ざいこ — stockpile;stock

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