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義

Level II of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 237 / 2,608

Righteousness

On’yomi
ぎ
Kun’yomi
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Radical
羊 Sheep (Kangxi 123)

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

More common than 母 (Mother), less common than 音 (Sound).

The wool-packed sheep puts the farmer through the fence for kicking a lamb, then parks ninety kilos of hoof on his chest and waits.

In words

講義 こうぎ lectureN4
義務 ぎむ duty,obligation,responsibilityN3
義理 ぎり duty;sense of duty;honor;decency;courtesy;debt of gratitude;social obligationN1

義 is rank 237 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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