4 strokes
Kentei exam level 1

be seen dimly, suggest, intimate, faint, stupid, hint

Kun'yomi
  • faint ②few
  • ほの-
  • to hint at
  • to be seen dimly
  • かたむ
On'yomi
  • ソク

Main Radical

(KanXi) (Nelson)

Character Breakdown

be seen dimly, suggest, intimate
ほの.か ソク かたむ.く (Kentei 1)
wild goose, trailing cliff radical (no. 27)
カン かりがね (Kentei 1)
person
ひと ニン ジン (1st, N5)

Contained In

Common Words

hearing casually
to be faintly visible
meter (in Chinese poetry)
oblique tones (the three tones of Chinese that exclude the high-level, or first, tone)
oblique-tone rhyme (of Chinese)
to hear faintly
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References

Unicode hex code 4EC4
JIS X 0208 1-48-28
Nelson, A. Classic Nelson 815
Haig, J. New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary 107
Halpern, J. New Japanese-English Character Dictionary 2946
Halpern, J. Kodansha Kanji Dictionary 3664
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji 2153
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji, Sixth Ed. 2276
Morohashi Daikanwajiten 352
Tuttle Dictionary Descriptor Code 2p2.1
Four corner code 7128.0