Kanji Detail for 桁 - "digit, beam, scale"

桁

Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
桁 means "digit, beam, scale."
1. Digit - A numerical place value.
2. Beam - A horizontal supporting structure.
3. Scale - Order of magnitude.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

beam; girder; spar; unit or column (accounting)

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

cross-beams of roof

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

cangue (stocks to punish criminals)

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

the cross-beams of a roof

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

屋桁: Horizontal beams in a house. | A large wooden punishment device. Such as 桁楊相望 (cangues and shackles visible everywhere), referring to many criminals. | Same as 航. A pontoon bridge. Wen Jiao attacked Wang Dun and burned the Zhuque Bridge. From "Book of Jin." | A clothes rack.
Onyomi

koh(コウ)
Kunyomi

keta(けた)
Strokes

10 strokes
Radical

木 (ki・kihen)
Related Keywords
digit figure number place beam girder crossbeam support scale magnitude order level span bridge structure architecture count measure large significant