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威

JLPT N1 9 strokes Frequency: #1103

Meanings

Intimidate, Dignity, Majesty, Menace, Threaten

Radicals

女

Decomposition

⿻戌女

Etymology

Ideographic: Dominating a woman 女 by force of arms 戈

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 9

Stroke Order

1 diagonal top-to-bottom

2 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

3 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

4 curve bottom-right-to-top-left

5 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

6 rising bottom-to-top

7 hook right-to-left

8 diagonal right-to-left

9 dot right-to-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

イ i

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

おど odo

Words Using This Kanji

84 words total

Other (20 words)

白糸威しろいとおどし

binding of plates with white laces (in traditional suits of armor)

御稜威みいつ

power (of the Emperor)

稜威言別いつのことわき

Notes on the Songs of the Kojiki and the Nihonshoki (by Tachibana Moribe, 1850)

稜威道別いつのちわき

The Parting Ways of Power (by Tachibana Moribe, 1844)

Norway

Kuwait

coercion

authority

to domineer

awing into submission

warning shot

power

virtue and influence

authority

threatening

prestige

authority and force

threat

dignity

to put on airs

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