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嶺

JLPT N1 17 strokes Frequency: #1959

Meanings

Peak, Summit

Radicals

山

Decomposition

⿱山領

Etymology

Pictophonetic: mountain

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 17

Stroke Order

1 vertical right-to-left

2 corner left-to-right

3 vertical right-to-left

4 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

5 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

6 dot bottom-to-top

7 corner bottom-to-top

8 dot bottom-to-top

9 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

10 diagonal right-to-left

11 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

12 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

13 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

14 horizontal bottom-to-top

15 horizontal bottom-to-top

16 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

17 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

リョウ ryou

レイ rei

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

みね mine

Words Using This Kanji

15 words total

Other (15 words)

watershed

Mount Hiei

(submarine) ridge

steep peak

mountaintop

silvery, snow-capped mountain

高嶺たかね

high peak

高嶺の花たかねのはな

prize beyond one's reach

雪嶺せつれい

snow-capped peak

中央海嶺ちゅうおうかいれい

mid-ocean ridge

高嶺桜たかねざくら

Japanese alpine cherry (Prunus nipponica)

青嶺あおね

lush mountain

嶺上開花リンシャンカイホウ

winning hand formed by drawing a replacement tile after declaring a kong

嶺上れいじょう

mountain top

高嶺苦菜たかねにがな

Ixeris dentata var. alpicola (mountain flower in the dandelion family)

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