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席 = 巾 + 广 + 廿
席 is a Japanese kanji written with 10 strokes, listed here under the keyword “seat”. It is built from 巾 (towel), 广 (cave) and 廿 (twenty). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 1277.
- Keyword
- seat
- RTK frame
- 1277
- Strokes
- 10
- On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
- セキ
- Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
- むしろ
- Script
- Japanese kanji
- Also known as
- место
- Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
- 席 seat
Decomposition
Primary decomposition
How to find 席 without knowing its reading
On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “towel” + “cave” + “twenty”. 席 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.
Open 席 in the interactive kanji search to expand every part down to its smallest pieces, add your own names and mnemonic stories, or search for other characters by their parts.