# 授 — Instruct

Frequency rank 760 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Mid-frequency: not on every page, but regular in books and magazines.

More common than 源 (Origin), less common than 憲 (Constitution).

- On’yomi: じゅ
- Kun’yomi: さず
- Radical: 手 Hand (Kangxi 64)
- Frequency path: Level VI of XX

Fingers on the left reach out to accept on the right -- when someone uses their fingers to pass knowledge for you to accept, they instruct you.

In words:

- 授業 じゅぎょう — lesson,class work
- 授ける さずける — to grant;to award;to teach
- 教授 きょうじゅ — teaching,instruction,professor

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