# 字 — Letter

Frequency rank 398 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

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

More common than 試 (Try), less common than 予 (Beforehand).

- On’yomi: じ
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 子 Child (Kangxi 39)
- Frequency path: Level IV of XX

A roof (roof) on top shelters a child (child) below — under the roof, a child learns to write letters, forming the first characters of the alphabet.

In words:

- 字 じ — character
- 字引 じびき — dictionary
- 漢字 かんじ — Chinese character

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