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頻 — Repeatedly

JLPT N117 strokesSecondary school#1590 most used
repeatedly, recur
On’yomiヒン (hin)
Kun’yomiしきりに (shikirini)

Stroke order (17 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).

Common words using 頻

WordReadingMeaning
頻繁ひんぱん
hinpan
frequent; incessant
頻度ひんど
hindo
frequency (of occurrence)
頻りにしきりに
shikirini
frequently; repeatedly; often
頻発ひんぱつ
hinpatsu
frequent occurrence

Study notes

頻 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 17 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1590 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).

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