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祭

JLPT N2 SL3 11 strokes Frequency: #1124

Meanings

Ritual, Offer Prayers, Celebrate, Deify, Enshrine, Worship

Radicals

示

Decomposition

⿱⿰⺼寸示

Etymology

Ideographic: Hand 寸 holding meat ⺼ over an altar 示

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 11

Stroke Order

1 diagonal right-to-left

2 corner top-to-bottom

3 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

4 dot bottom-to-top

5 corner top-to-bottom

6 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

7 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

8 horizontal bottom-to-top

9 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

10 diagonal bottom-to-top

11 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

サイ sai

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

まつり matsuri

まつ matsu

Words Using This Kanji

179 words total

Other (20 words)

夏祭りなつまつり

summer festival

花祭りはなまつり

Buddha's birthday festival (April 8th)

festival

festival

music festival

art festival

priest

address to the gods

a day after the fair

Thanksgiving (Day)

Independence Day celebration

お祭り騒ぎおまつりさわぎ

festival merrymaking

収穫祭しゅうかくさい

harvest festival

鎮魂祭ちんこんさい

ceremony for the repose of a soul

春祭りはるまつり

spring festival

親祭しんさい

rites conducted by the emperor

秋祭りあきまつり

autumn festival

夜祭りよまつり

night festival

宵祭りよいまつり

small festival held the night before the main festival

学祭がくさい

school festival

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