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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)

国言葉くにことば

local dialect

売り言葉うりことば

fighting words

買い言葉かいことば

retort (to an insult, jeer, etc.)

a promise or pledge

speech

dried leaves

conifer

tofu skin

deciduous tree

russet

vulgar

word of Japanese origin

単子葉植物たんしようしょくぶつ

monocotyledon

三つ葉みつば

mitsuba (Cryptotaenia japonica)

blades of grass

temporal lobe

compound leaf

tip of a leaf

leafy vegetables

ornamental (foliage) plant

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