料 · fee, material

JLPT N4 kanji. Readings, meaning, and how the character is built.

料 means fee, material. It is a JLPT N4 kanji written in 10 strokes, read りょう. It is built from 2 parts: 米 (rice, USA), 斗 (Big Dipper, ten sho (vol)). It appears in 料理 (cooking) and 食料品 (foodstuff / groceries).

筆順 · Stroke order

料 is written in 10 strokes, in the order numbered below. Order matters: it is what makes handwriting legible, and it is how the character is looked up in a paper dictionary.

解字 · What it is made of

料 breaks into 2 parts.

• 米 semantic rice, USA · left carries the meaning
• 斗 semantic Big Dipper, ten sho (vol) · right carries the meaning

Words that use 料

Word	Reading	Meaning
料理	りょうり	cooking
食料品	しょくりょうひん	foodstuff / groceries
原料	げんりょう	raw materials

Built from the same parts

These use 米 or 斗 too. The part keeps its job from one character to the next, which is what makes it worth learning once.

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