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誕

JLPT N1 SL6 15 strokes Frequency: #1024

Meanings

Nativity, Be Born, Declension, Lie, Be Arbitrary

Radicals

言

Decomposition

⿰言延

Etymology

Pictophonetic: speech

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 15

Stroke Order

1 dot right-to-left

2 horizontal bottom-to-top

3 horizontal bottom-to-top

4 horizontal bottom-to-top

5 vertical bottom-to-top

6 corner bottom-to-top

7 horizontal bottom-to-top

8 diagonal right-to-left

9 vertical right-to-left

10 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

11 vertical right-to-left

12 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

13 corner right-to-left

14 corner top-to-bottom

15 diagonal bottom-to-top

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

タン tan

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

No common kun'yomi readings

Words Using This Kanji

41 words total

Other (20 words)

誕生会たんじょうかい

birthday party

お誕生日おめでとうおたんじょうびおめでとう

happy birthday!

ビクトリア女王誕生日ビクトリアじょおうたんじょうび

Victoria Day (Canadian public holiday)

誕生パーティーたんじょうパーティー

birthday party

誕生仏たんじょうぶつ

statue of the birth of Buddha (right hand pointing at the heavens, left hand pointing at the earth)

one's birthplace

birthday party

birthday present

birthday present

sudden emergence

(seat at) the head of the table

降誕会ごうたんえ

service celebrating the birth of the Buddha (held on April 8)

誕生月たんじょうづき

month of birth

お誕生日おたんじょうび

birthday

誕生花たんじょうか

birth flower (flower associated with the month of one's birth)

誕生秘話たんじょうひわ

facts behind the origin of something

birthday cake

Nativity group

stillbirth

The Birth of Momotaro (book by Yanagita Kunio)

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