Meanings

Recitation, Poem, Song, Composing

Radicals

言

Decomposition

⿰言永

Etymology

Pictophonetic: speech

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 12

Stroke Order

1 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

2 horizontal bottom-to-top

3 horizontal bottom-to-top

4 horizontal bottom-to-top

5 vertical bottom-to-top

6 corner bottom-to-top

7 horizontal bottom-to-top

8 dot right-to-left

9 hook bottom-right-to-top-left

10 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

11 diagonal right-to-left

12 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

エイ ei

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

よ yo

うた uta

Words Using This Kanji

31 words total

Other (11 words)

詠春拳えいしゅんけん

Wing Chun (traditional Chinese martial art)

詠えい

recitation (of a poem)

詠叙唱えいじょしょう

arioso

遺詠いえい

posthumous song or poem

一句詠むいっくよむ

to compose a poem (esp. haiku)

詠むよむ

to compose (a Japanese poem)

draft poem

poem (esp. tanka)

reciting poetry

aria

presentation of a poem (to the Court or a shrine)

First Previous 2 / 2 Next Last

Back to list