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夢

JLPT N3 SL5 13 strokes Frequency: #943

Meanings

Dream, Vision, Illusion

Radicals

夕

Decomposition

⿱艹⿱罒⿱冖夕

Etymology

Ideographic: Two eyes 艹 shut 罒 at night 夕

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 13

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

2 vertical right-to-left

3 vertical right-to-left

4 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

5 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

6 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

7 vertical right-to-left

8 horizontal bottom-to-top

9 dot bottom-to-top

10 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

11 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

12 corner top-right-to-bottom-left

13 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ム mu

ボウ bou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

ゆめ yume

くら kura

Words Using This Kanji

90 words total

Other (20 words)

凶夢きょうむ

inauspicious dream

初夢はつゆめ

first dream of the New year (believed to foretell one's luck)

酔生夢死すいせいむし

idling one's life away

正夢まさゆめ

dream that comes true

dream

dreams

absorbed in

to dream (of)

dreamer

(not) in the slightest

夢精むせい

wet dream

夢を見るゆめをみる

to dream (i.e. while asleep)

dream

dreamy state of mind

sleepwalking

illusion

precognitive dream

daydream

account of a dream

ancient dream

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