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桁

beam
Stroke count: 10

Readings

On readingコウ
Kun readingけた
JōyōGrade 8KANJIDIC

Meanings

  1. beam
    医者なら６桁の収入は珍しくない。A six-figure income is not uncommon for physicians.tatoeba
    この２桁は省くべきだ。You should leave out these two lines.tatoeba
  2. girderRtK
  3. spar
  4. unit or column (accounting)
  1. crossbeam

Synonyms

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Radicals and components

Radical木tree
Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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tree (木) · wood (木) · going (行)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 956

Compound words

桁外れけたはずれ
incredible
２桁ふたけた
two-digit number
衣桁いこう
clothes rack
井桁いげた
well curb consisting of wooden beams crossed at the ends
一桁ひとけた
one digit
桁橋けたばし
girder bridge
五桁ごけた
five-digit number
三桁さんけた
three-digit number
四桁よけた
four-digit number
二桁ふたけた
two-digit number
昭和一桁しょうわひとけた
(generation born in) the first nine years of the Shōwa period (1926-1934)

Additional Examples

２桁のＩＱがある人間なら誰でも、この選択が政治的に偏ったものだって分かってるよ。
Anybody with at least a two-digit IQ knows this was a politically biased choice.tatoeba

Stroke Order

10 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 桁

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step