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幽

JLPT N1 9 strokes Frequency: #1996

Meanings

Seclude, Confine To A Room, Deep, Profound, Secluded, Faint, Dark, Tranquil, Calm

Radicals

幺

Decomposition

⿻山⿰幺幺

Etymology

Ideographic: Small niches 幺 in the mountainside 山; 幺 also provides the pronunciation

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 9

Stroke Order

1 vertical top-right-to-bottom-left

2 curve bottom-right-to-top-left

3 curve bottom-right-to-top-left

4 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

5 curve right-to-left

6 curve bottom-right-to-top-left

7 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

8 corner top-left-to-bottom-right

9 vertical right-to-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ユウ yuu

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

しろ shiro

くら kura

ふか fuka

かす kasu

Words Using This Kanji

59 words total

Other (20 words)

bogus company

gloom

orchid

mysterious profundity

solitude

dark window

confinement

haunted house

ghost story

to confine to a room

ghost

quiet sequestered scene

quiet

quiet and secluded

dim

ghost

ghost ship

deep

marine spirits

deep mountain valleys

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