# 桁 — Beam/digit

Frequency rank 2134 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Rarer in this ranking, but still part of the 2,608-character published set.

More common than 巌 (Rock), less common than 兎 (Rabbit).

- On’yomi: こう
- Kun’yomi: けた
- Radical: 木 Tree (Kangxi 75)
- Frequency path: Level XVII of XX

A tree trunk is laid horizontally to go across a gap — it becomes a structural beam.

In words:

- 桁 けた — column,beam,digit

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