けい
カ, よし
excellent, beautiful, good, pleasing, skilled

This kanji has 8 strokes: 2 in the "person" radical (ひと) and 6 other strokes.

Sample compounds (17) :


  1. beautiful, good, excellent

  2. かじん
    (female) beauty, beautiful woman

  3. かじゅう
    excellent poem

  4. かれい
    good example

  5. かく
    beautiful passage of literature

  6. かみ
    delicious taste

  7. かひん
    choice article

  8. かきゃく
    good visitor

  9. かよう
    comely face

  10. かげつ
    good month, bright moon

  11. かせつ
    auspicious occasion

  12. かへん
    outstanding poem

  13. ぜっか
    (a-no) superb (view, landscape)

  14. かこう
    delicacy, rare treat, good-eating fish

  15. かわ
    good story
  16. 調
    かちょう
    good tune

  17. かしゅ
    good taste, good impression
Kanji Character : 佳
Kuten Encoding : 1834
SJIS Encoding : 3242
Unicode Encoding : 4f73
Old Nelson Index : 429
Radical Number : 9
Frequency Ranking : 1575
Gakken Index : 1606
Grade Level : 8
Halpern Index : 86
Heisig Index : 970
Henshall Index : 1044
New Nelson Index : 194
O'Neil Index : 560
Stroke Count : 8
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 2a6.10
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 2
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 6
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : a
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 10
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 1462
SKIP Code : 1-2-6
De Roo Code : 2172
Four Corner Code : 2421.4
Korean reading : gae
Pinyin reading : jia1
Morohashi Index String : 557
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 1.0731
Morohashi Index Number : 557
Morohashi Page : 731
Morohashi Volume : 1
Cross Index Codes
  1. N3885
Dictionary Codes
  1. R2172
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