# 警 — Warn

Frequency rank 526 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

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

More common than 武 (Military), less common than 圧 (Pressure).

- On’yomi: けい
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 言 Speech (Kangxi 149)
- Frequency path: Level V of XX
- School grade: 6
- Strokes: 19

At the top, a poem sits above winter, and below them say anchors the bottom — in winter you say a warning poem, that's how you warn people of danger.

In words:

- 警官 けいかん — policeman
- 警察 けいさつ — police
- 警告 けいこく — warning,advice

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