駅 · station

JLPT N5 kanji. Readings, meaning, and how the character is built.

駅 means station. It is a JLPT N5 kanji written in 14 strokes, read えき. It is built from 2 parts: 馬 (horse), 尺 (shaku, Japanese foot).

筆順 · Stroke order

駅 is written in 14 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

駅 breaks into 2 parts.

• 馬 semantic horse · left carries the meaning
• 尺 other shaku, Japanese foot · right component

Words that use 駅

Word	Reading	Meaning
駅	えき	station

Built from the same parts

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

• 昼daytime

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