Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 6

JLPT level: N2

1076 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 4

Meaning: one-sided, leaf, sheet, right-side kata radical (no. 91)

Kunyomi: かた- かた

Onyomi: ヘン

Radical

Radical:

Reading: かた

Meaning: slice

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

(はへん)   fragment, splinter, piece

(だんぺん)   fragment, shred

手(かたて)   one hand

目(かため)   one eye

側(かたがわ)   one side

面(かためん)   one side

道(かたみち)   one-way

言(かたこと)   baby talk, broken speech

仮名(かたかな)   katakana

思い(かたおもい)   unrequited love

寄る(かたよる)   lean, incline, be biased

付ける(かたづける)   tidy up

Onyomi Examples

ヘン counter for scraps, fragments, petals, etc.

カタトキ moment, instant

シヘン piece (scrap, bit, strip) of paper

サイヘン debris

Kunyomi Examples

かた one (of a pair), incomplete, imperfect, fragmentary, few, little, off-centre, remote, side, problem, question, matters

かたがわ one side