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析 — Chop

JLPT N18 strokesSecondary school#980 most used
chop, divide, tear, analyze
On’yomiセキ (seki)
Kun’yomi

Stroke order (8 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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

Common words using 析

WordReadingMeaning
分析ぶんせき
bunseki
analysis
解析かいせき
kaiseki
analysis; analytical study; parsing
透析とうせき
touseki
dialysis
人工透析じんこうとうせき
jinkoutouseki
(artificial) dialysis
精神分析せいしんぶんせき
seishinbunseki
psychoanalysis

Study notes

析 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 8 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #980 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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