# 類 — Type

Frequency rank 374 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

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

More common than 映 (Reflect), less common than 図 (Diagram).

- On’yomi: るい
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 頁 Leaf (Kangxi 181)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX

Rice on the left, big in the middle, and a geoduck on the right — a big geoduck sorts rice into different types, organizing each grain by variety.

In words:

- 類 たぐい — a kind
- 類推 るいすい — analogy
- 類似 るいじ — analogous

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