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葉

JLPT N3 SL3 12 strokes Frequency: #414

Meanings

Leaf, Plane, Lobe, Needle, Blade, Spear, Counter For Flat Things, Fragment, Piece

Radicals

艹

Decomposition

⿱艹枼

Etymology

Ideographic: A flat 枼 leaf 艹; 枼 also provides the pronunciation

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 12

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

2 vertical right-to-left

3 vertical right-to-left

4 horizontal bottom-to-top

5 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

6 vertical right-to-left

7 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

8 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

9 horizontal bottom-to-top

10 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

11 diagonal bottom-to-top

12 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ヨウ you

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

は ha

Words Using This Kanji

461 words total

Other (20 words)

tea leaves

local dialect

Word of God

perfoliate leaf

three-leaf clover

word game

mitsuba (Cryptotaenia japonica)

上質葉じょうしつば

high-quality leaves (e.g. green onions, tobacco, tea)

若者言葉わかものことば

words used by young people

間葉系細胞かんようけいさいぼう

mesenchymal cell

薄葉細辛ウスバサイシン

Siebold's wild ginger (Asarum sieboldii)

薄葉紙うすようし

thin paper (esp. thin Japanese vellum paper)

leaf shape

regular postcard

lung lobectomy

mulberry leaf powder

green barley

mulberry leaf

Salix urbaniana (species of willow)

クッション言葉クッションことば

word to soften awkward topics (esp. refusal in business conversation, e.g. "I am afraid that ...")

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