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幣 — Cash

JLPT N115 strokesSecondary school#1803 most used
cash, bad habit, humble prefix, gift, Shinto offerings of cloth, rope
On’yomiヘイ (hei)
Kun’yomiぬさ (nusa)

Stroke order (15 strokes)

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Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).

Common words using 幣

WordReadingMeaning
紙幣しへい
shihei
paper money; note; bill
貨幣かへい
kahei
money; currency; coin
貨幣価値かへいかち
kaheikachi
currency value
造幣ぞうへい
zouhei
coinage; mintage

Study notes

幣 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 15 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1803 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).

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