The kanji 児: meaning, readings and stroke order
児
- Meaning
- child
- On reading
- ジ ji、ニ* ni
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 儿 legs
- Level
- Level 4 · grade 4
- Old form
- 兒
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- trẻ em, nhi đồng (nhi)
- Japanese
- こども。
- Korean
- 아이 (아)
- Chinese
- 儿童、孩子 (儿)
Readings, words and example sentences
ジ ji · on reading
児童
schoolchildren
児童が 校門を 通ります。
Schoolchildren walk through the school gate.
* marks a less common reading, usually learnt from junior high on.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.