Kanji · first appears in JLPT N5 vocabulary
椅

椅 – chair

12 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#2245 in newspaper frequencyN5 vocabulary

The kanji 椅 means chair. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is イ (i). It is written with 12 strokes, under radical 木 (no. 75).

Stroke order

123456789101112

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

Readings

TypeReadingRomaji
On’yomiイi

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: (Kangxi radical 75). Components: 口・大・木・一・亅.

Words using 椅

Example sentences

ちょっと椅子をずらしてくれない?
Could you move the chair a bit?
彼は必ず大統領の椅子につく人物だ。
He is a natural to win the Presidency.

Kanji with the same radical

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.