# 記 — Write Down

Frequency rank 140 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Common in published Japanese. A handful of these and real text starts to open.

More common than 野 (Field), less common than 原 (Original).

- On’yomi: き
- Kun’yomi: しる
- Radical: 言 Speech (Kangxi 149)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX
- School grade: 2
- Strokes: 10

The wide flat mouth gapes and its loose tongue flaps out four more slabs of sound nobody asked for, and the man folded into the coin locker has to write down every syllable on his own bare thigh in biro.

In words:

- 記す しるす — to note;to write down
- 日記 にっき — journal
- 記者 きしゃ — reporter

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