ヤク
promise, approximately, shrink

This kanji has 9 strokes: 6 in the "thread" radical (いと) and 3 other strokes.

Sample compounds (16) :


  1. やく
    approximately, about, some

  2. よやく
    (vs) reservation, contract, subscription, booking, pledge, advance order

  3. きやく
    breaking a promise

  4. しんやく
    vow, promise

  5. けにゃく
    (vs) economy, frugality (thrifty)

  6. せんやく
    previous engagement, prior contract

  7. せいやく
    (vs) limitation, restriction, condition

  8. ばいやく
    (vs) sales contract

  9. じょうやく
    treaty, pact

  10. けいやく
    contract, compact, agreement

  11. やくじょう
    agreement, stipulation, contract

  12. やくすう
    (a) measure

  13. めいやく
    oath, pledge, pact, covenant

  14. せつやく
    (vs) economising, saving

  15. かいやく
    cancellation of contract

  16. いやく
    breach of contract, default
Kanji Character : 約
Kuten Encoding : 4483
SJIS Encoding : 4c73
Unicode Encoding : 7d04
Old Nelson Index : 3499
Radical Number : 120
Frequency Ranking : 127
Gakken Index : 137
Grade Level : 4
Halpern Index : 1280
Heisig Index : 1362
Henshall Index : 591
New Nelson Index : 4440
Stroke Count : 9
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 6a3.7
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 6
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 3
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : a
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 7
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 211
SKIP Code : 1-6-3
De Roo Code : 2752
Four Corner Code : 2792.0
Korean reading : yo
Pinyin reading : yao1
Morohashi Index String : 27242X
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 8.0939
Morohashi Index Number : 27242
Morohashi Page : 939
Morohashi Volume : 8
Morohashi Glyph is not in JIS X 0208 : true
Dictionary Codes
  1. R2752
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