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歌

JLPT N4 SL2 14 strokes Frequency: #519

Meanings

Song, Sing

Radicals

欠

Decomposition

⿰哥欠

Etymology

Pictophonetic: breath

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 14

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-to-top

2 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

3 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

4 horizontal bottom-to-top

5 vertical right-to-left

6 horizontal bottom-to-top

7 vertical bottom-to-top

8 corner bottom-to-top

9 horizontal bottom-to-top

10 hook bottom-right-to-top-left

11 diagonal top-to-bottom

12 corner right-to-left

13 diagonal top-to-bottom

14 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

カ ka

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

うた uta

Words Using This Kanji

247 words total

Other (20 words)

替え歌かえうた

parody (of a song)

歌留多カルタ

karuta

old poem (esp. waka)

詩歌しいか

Japanese and Chinese poetry

恋歌こいうた

love song

歌ううたう

to sing

歌合うたあわせ

poetry contest

歌声うたごえ

singing voice

社歌しゃか

company song

鎮魂曲歌ちんこんきょくか

(sung) requiem

狂歌きょうか

comic (satirical) tanka

秀歌しゅうか

splendid tanka

歌論かろん

essay on tanka poetry

歌い手うたいて

singer

組歌くみうた

var. of folksong

革命歌かくめいか

revolutionary song

元歌もとうた

original song

飲めや歌えのめやうたえ

revelry

elegy

歌い合ううたいあう

to sing responsively

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