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紫

JLPT N1 12 strokes Frequency: #1516

Meanings

Purple, Violet

Radicals

糸

Decomposition

⿱此糸

Etymology

Pictophonetic: silk

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 12

Stroke Order

1 vertical right-to-left

2 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

3 vertical right-to-left

4 rising bottom-left-to-top-right

5 diagonal right-to-left

6 curve right-to-left

7 curve bottom-right-to-top-left

8 curve bottom-right-to-top-left

9 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

10 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

11 diagonal bottom-to-top

12 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

シ shi

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

むらさき murasaki

Words Using This Kanji

77 words total

Other (20 words)

紫煙しえん

purple smoke

紫水晶むらさきずいしょう

amethyst

紫雲しうん

purple clouds on which Amitabha rides to welcome the spirits of the dead

紫色むらさきいろ

purple

紫外しがい

ultraviolet

紫陽花あじさい

bigleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla)

ultraviolet rays

purple

dark purple

purplish red

dark purple

reddish-purple

dark purple

Ohio spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis)

紫電しでん

purple lightning

紫檀したん

rosewood

紫雲英ゲンゲ

Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus)

紫蘭しらん

Bletilla striata (purple variety of orchid)

若紫わかむらさき

light purple

山紫水明さんしすいめい

scenic beauty

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