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材 = 才 + 木

材 is a Japanese kanji written with 7 strokes, listed here under the keyword “lumber”. It is built from 才 (genius) and 木 (tree). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 738.

Keyword
lumber
RTK frame
738
Strokes
7
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
ザイ
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
пиломатериалы
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
材 material

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 才 genius
  2. 木 tree

How to find 材 without knowing its reading

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

Open 材 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.