# 議 — Deliberation

Frequency rank 265 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

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

More common than 件 (Matter), less common than 料 (Fee).

- On’yomi: ぎ
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 言 Speech (Kangxi 149)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX
- School grade: 4
- Strokes: 20

Two mouths across a table cough up slabs of sound and stack them into rival towers, each capping his own with a slab of righteousness the other cannot climb.

In words:

- 会議 かいぎ — meeting
- 議員 ぎいん — member of the Diet, congress or parliament
- 議会 ぎかい — Diet,congress,parliament

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