Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

頻: repeatedly, recur

JLPT N117 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

頁 carries the meaning · 歩 is drawn in

17 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

ヒンhin · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 頻繁ひんぱんfrequent; incessant
  • 頻度ひんどfrequency (of occurrence)
  • 頻発ひんぱつfrequent occurrence

しきりにshikirini · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 頻りにしきりにfrequently; repeatedly; often

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Face the world! This radical represents everything that happens from the neck up—thinking, seeing, breathing, and the very identity of a person.”
More in the 頁 head story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
歩

Also built on walk (歩)

頁

Also built on head (頁)

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Also read ヒン

5 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
頻 repeatedly · 歩
vs願 petition · 原
頻 has 歩 where 願 has 原.
In ChineseSimplified 频 · traditional, as in Japanese · pín

Japan keeps the traditional form 頻; mainland China simplifies it to 频.

Simplified
频 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
頻 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin pín most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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