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哀

JLPT N1 9 strokes Frequency: #1715

Meanings

Pathetic, Grief, Sorrow, Pathos, Pity, Sympathize

Radicals

口

Decomposition

⿻衣口

Etymology

Pictophonetic: mouth

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 9

Stroke Order

1 vertical right-to-left

2 horizontal bottom-to-top

3 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

4 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

5 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

6 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

7 corner bottom-to-top

8 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

9 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

アイ ai

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

あわ awa

かな kana

Words Using This Kanji

50 words total

Other (20 words)

女工哀史じょこうあいし

The Tragic History of Female Factory Workers (reportage by Wakizo Hosoi, 1925)

ザ・ソプラノズ哀愁のマフィアザソプラノズひげきのマフィア

The Sopranos (TV series)

to pity

pathos

sad

joys and sorrows

elegy

pathetic

condolence

plaintive

lament (song)

moan

pity

grief and pleasure

sad story

sorrow

plaintive strains

sad story

pity

sad voices

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