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桔 = 木 + 吉

桔 is a Japanese kanji written with 10 strokes, listed here under the keyword “bellflower”. It is built from 木 (tree) and 吉 (good luck). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 2561.

Keyword
bellflower
RTK frame
2561
Strokes
10
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
キツ, ケツ
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
used in plant names, колокольчик
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
桔 chinese bellflower

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 木 tree
  2. 吉 good luck

How to find 桔 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “tree” + “good luck”. 桔 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

Open 桔 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.