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JLPT N3 SL3 15 strokes Frequency: #87

Meanings

Tune, Tone, Meter, Key (music), Writing Style, Prepare, Exorcise, Investigate, Harmonize, Mediate

Radicals

言

Decomposition

⿰言周

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 top-to-bottom

9 hook right-to-left

10 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

11 vertical right-to-left

12 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

13 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

14 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

15 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

チョウ chou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

ととの totono

しら shira

Words Using This Kanji

558 words total

Other (20 words)

tone (of voice)

inarticulate

favourable

tuning

concert pitch

reexamination

readjustment

flippant

market research

municipal census

fact-finding

seven-and-five-syllable meter

lack of harmony

to investigate

keynote

frequency modulation

frequency modulation

exit poll (in elections)

順調じゅんちょう

favourable

音調おんちょう

tune

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