Stroke order is not decoration — it determines how the character looks handwritten and how dictionaries index it.
Almost every kanji is built from a small set of reusable parts. Learn the parts once and you stop memorising thousands of unrelated shapes.
The radical is the part a paper dictionary files a kanji under, and it usually hints at meaning. 雉 is filed under 隹 (short tailed bird) — radical number 172 of the 214 in the Kangxi system.
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Kanji are almost never met alone. These are the most common words built from this character, ordered by how often they actually appear in Japanese.
Japanese names use readings that appear nowhere else in the language. These are 雉's — the reason personal and place names are so hard to read even for native speakers.
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雉 means Pheasant.
雉 is read on'yomi (Chinese-derived) じ、ち; kun'yomi (native Japanese) きじ.
雉 is written with 13 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.
The radical of 雉 is 隹 (short tailed bird), radical number 172 of the 214 Kangxi radicals. The radical is the component a dictionary files the character under, and it usually points at the character's meaning.
雉 is built from 矢 (dart) and 隹 (bird). Learning kanji as combinations of a few hundred reusable components is far more efficient than memorising each character as a separate shape.
Common words written with 雉 include 雉子 (キジ, green pheasant (Phasianus versicolor); Japanese green pheasant); 白雉 (ハクチ, Hakuchi era (650.2.15-654.10.?)); 雉鳩 (キジバト, Oriental turtle dove (Streptopelia orientalis), eastern turtle dove, rufous turtledove).
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