Keyword
street
Info
FrequencyTop 900-1000
Type
Kyōiku (3rd grade) 
?
KankenLevel 8
Heisig95
Readings
てい
(45%)
Composed of
one
hook
Mnemonic

A pictograph of a street sign, with a slight barb at the bottom so that no one's going to be able to pull it out of the ground and steal it.

Used in kanji (19 in total)
can do
strike
demonstrate
town
Used in vocabulary (162 in total)
polite; courteous; civil; careful; close; thorough
kitchen knife; carving knife; (arch.) cooking; (arch.) food
exactly; precisely; just; as if; as though; quite
Examples (14 in total)
I need a kitchen knife.
You shouldn't let children play with the kitchen knife.
You do things too sloppily. Please do things more carefully.