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鳴

JLPT N3 SL2 14 strokes Frequency: #1279

Meanings

Chirp, Cry, Bark, Sound, Ring, Echo, Honk

Radicals

鳥

Decomposition

⿰口鳥

Etymology

Ideographic: The sound 口 a bird 鳥 makes

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 14

Stroke Order

1 vertical bottom-to-top

2 corner bottom-to-top

3 horizontal bottom-to-top

4 diagonal right-to-left

5 vertical right-to-left

6 corner right-to-left

7 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

8 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

9 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

10 hook top-left-to-bottom-right

11 dot bottom-to-top

12 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

13 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

14 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

メイ mei

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

な na

Words Using This Kanji

126 words total

Other (20 words)

oceanic noise

sympathizer

resonance

resonance

crowing of a cock

ringing

magnetic resonance imaging

奏鳴曲そうめいきょく

sonata

かき鳴らすかきならす

to strum (an instrument)

to ring (a bell)

to shout (in anger)

to shout at

shriek

let a hundred schools of thought contend

鳴くなく

to make sound (of an animal)

rumbling

cry (of an animal)

to sound

to resound (echo) far and wide

家鳴りやなり

rattling and trembling of a house (traditionally believed to be caused by oni or the deceased)

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