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笛
JLPT N1 SL3 11 strokes Frequency: #1928

Meanings

Flute, Clarinet, Pipe, Whistle, Bagpipe, Piccolo

Radicals

⺮

Decomposition

⿱⺮由

Etymology

Ideographic: A bamboo ⺮ flute 由

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 11

Stroke Order

1 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left
2 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
3 dot bottom-right-to-top-left
4 diagonal right-to-left
5 horizontal right-to-left
6 diagonal right-to-left
7 vertical bottom-to-top
8 corner bottom-to-top
9 vertical right-to-left
10 horizontal bottom-to-top
11 horizontal bottom-to-top
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
テキ teki
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
ふえ fue

Words Using This Kanji

50 words total
Other (20 words)
汽笛 きてき

steam whistle

響笛 きょうてき

vibrating pipe

警笛 けいてき

horn

鼓笛隊 こてきたい

drum and fife band

鼓笛 こてき

drum and fife

口笛 くちぶえ

whistle (sound made with the lips)

草笛 くさぶえ

reed pipe

笛吹き ふえふき

flute player

笛 ふえ

flute

麦笛 むぎぶえ

wheat-straw whistle

霧笛 むてき

foghorn

牧笛 ぼくてき

shepherds pipe

魔笛 まてき

magic flute

縦笛 たてぶえ

end-blown flute (esp. the recorder)

号笛 ごうてき

siren

虎落笛 もがりぶえ

winter wind whistling through a bamboo fence

銀笛 ぎんてき

tin whistle

口笛を吹く くちぶえをふく

to whistle

秋の鹿は笛に寄る あきのしかはふえによる

people may bring about their demise for love

角笛 つのぶえ

horn (instrument; made of animal horn)

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