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麗

JLPT N1 19 strokes Frequency: #1758

Meanings

Lovely, Beautiful, Graceful, Resplendent

Radicals

鹿

Decomposition

⿱丽鹿

Etymology

Ideographic: The antlers of a deer 鹿

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 19

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

2 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

3 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

4 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

5 horizontal right-to-left

6 vertical right-to-left

7 corner right-to-left

8 dot right-to-left

9 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

10 horizontal bottom-to-top

11 diagonal right-to-left

12 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

13 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

14 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

15 horizontal bottom-to-top

16 horizontal bottom-to-top

17 corner bottom-to-top

18 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

19 curve bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

レイ rei

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

うるわ uruwa

うら ura

Words Using This Kanji

59 words total

Other (19 words)

高麗笛こまぶえ

Korean flute (horizontal bamboo flute with six holes; highest-pitched flute used in gagaku)

高麗こうらい

Goryeo (dynasty of Korea; 918-1392 CE)

高句麗こうくり

Goguryeo (ancient Korean kingdom; 37 BCE-668 CE)

綺麗さっぱりきれいさっぱり

once and for all

麗景殿れいけいでん

ladies' pavilion (of the inner Heian Palace)

麗日れいじつ

glorious spring day

華麗なるかれいなる

The Great (e.g. in film and book titles)

淡麗たんれい

smooth and refreshing (of sake)

高麗海老コウライエビ

Chinese white shrimp (Fenneropenaeus chinensis)

綺麗かったきれいかった

was pretty

麗らうらら

bright (weather, mood, voice, etc.)

麗々れいれい

ostentatious

綺麗さびきれいさび

kirei-sabi

月が綺麗ですねつきがきれいですね

the moon is beautiful, isn't it?

清麗せいれい

clean

高麗人こうらいじん

Koryo-saram (ethnic Koreans of the former Soviet Union)

麗しのうるわしの

beautiful

高麗航空こうらいこうくう

Air Koryo

春麗チュン・リー

Chun-Li (in the Street Fighter series)

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