桁 – beam, girder, spar

10 strokesJōyō (secondary school)N2 vocabulary

The kanji 桁 means beam, girder, spar, unit or column (accounting). Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is コウ (kou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is けた (keta). It is written with 10 strokes, under radical 木 (no. 75).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	コウ	kou
Kun’yomi	けた	keta

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 木 (Kangxi radical 75). Components: 行・木・彳.

Words using 桁

桁けたcolumn

Example sentences

この２桁は省くべきだ。

You should leave out these two lines.

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医者なら６桁の収入は珍しくない。

A six-figure income is not uncommon for physicians.

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Kanji with the same radical

本東業来機権査案村果格検校構木条

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