Stroke order is not decoration — it determines how the character looks handwritten and how dictionaries index it.
The radical is the part a paper dictionary files a kanji under, and it usually hints at meaning. 戸 is filed under 戶 (door) — radical number 63 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 戸's — the reason personal and place names are so hard to read even for native speakers.
Japanese has far more kanji than syllables, so one reading is shared by many characters. These are the ones you will confuse with 戸 — learn them together, not separately.
Place names are where kanji readings get strange — and where you meet this character in the wild.
Useful when looking a character up by stroke count — and a common source of visual mix-ups.
戸 is the 567th most common kanji in written Japanese. Learning in frequency order is the fastest route to reading real text.
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戸 means Door, Counter For Houses, Door Radical (no. 63). It is the 567th most common kanji in written Japanese.
戸 is read on'yomi (Chinese-derived) こ; kun'yomi (native Japanese) と.
戸 is written with 4 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.
Japanese schoolchildren learn it in grade 2.
The radical of 戸 is 戶 (door), radical number 63 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.
Common words written with 戸 include 江戸 (えど, Edo (shogunate capital; former name of Tokyo); Yedo); 井戸 (いど, water well); 戸惑い (とまどい, being at sea; losing one's bearings; confusion).
戸 shares a reading with 去 (こ), 個 (こ), 呼 (こ), 古 (こ), 故 (こ), among others. Same-sounding kanji are one of the most common sources of confusion in Japanese.
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