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 (10 words)

笛座ふえざ

flute-player seating area (noh), behind upstage left

sea whistle

bamboo flute

bagpipe

Chinese emperor (species of emperor bream, Lethrinus haematopterus)

浜笛吹はまふえふき

spangled emperor (species of emperor bream, Lethrinus nebulosus)

笛子てきし

dizi

鳩笛はとぶえ

pigeon-shaped whistle

ハーメルンの笛吹き男ハーメルンのふえふきおとこ

the Pied Piper of Hamelin

横笛よこぶえ

transverse flute (e.g. a fife)

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