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形

Level II of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 239 / 2,608

Shape

On’yomi
けい、ぎょう
Kun’yomi
かた、かたち
Radical
彡 Bristle (Kangxi 59)

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

More common than 起 (Wake Up), less common than 母 (Mother).

Long greasy strands hang down over the paper lantern, and the flame behind them throws three stiff bristles onto the wall, black and two metres tall.

In words

形 かたち shapeN4
人形 にんぎょう doll, figureN4
形式 けいしき form,formality,format,math expressionN2

形 is rank 239 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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