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JLPT N5 SL2 14 strokes Frequency: #618

Meanings

Read

Radicals

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 14

Stroke Order

1 dot right-to-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 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
9 vertical right-to-left
10 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
11 dot bottom-right-to-top-left
12 corner bottom-right-to-top-left
13 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left
14 curve bottom-right-to-top-left
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
ドク doku
トク toku
トウ tou
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
yo

Words Using This Kanji

298 words total
Other (20 words)
返読点 へんどくてん

word-order marks used to assist reading of Chinese classics

一読三嘆 いちどくさんたん

a reading leaves one with ceaseless sighs of admiration

読書百遍 どくしょひゃっぺん

repeated reading (makes the meaning clear)

読書三余 どくしょさんよ

winter, night, and rainy weather

読書三到 どくしょさんとう

using mind, mouth and eyes to understand a book fully

既読 きどく

already read

流し読み ながしよみ

skimming (a book, etc.)

読み札 よみふだ

card to be read (e.g. in hyakunin isshu karuta, iroha karuta)

門前の小僧習わぬ経を読む もんぜんのこぞうならわぬきょうをよむ

you learn, without realising it, from what is around you

難読語 なんどくご

word with difficult-to-read kanji

慣用読み かんようよみ

reading (of a word) that has become accepted through popular usage

論語読みの論語知らず ろんごよみのろんごしらず

knowing a theory without being able to apply it

日読みの酉 ひよみのとり

kanji "bird of the zodiac" radical (radical 164)

空気を読む くうきをよむ

to read the situation

読者数 どくしゃすう

number of readers (of a magazine, newspaper, etc.)

斜め読み ななめよみ

skim reading

縦読み たてよみ

reading the first character of each line of a horizontally written text (to reveal a hidden word or message)

読み書きそろばん よみかきそろばん

the three Rs

定期購読 ていきこうどく

subscription (e.g. to a magazine)

カード読み取り装置 カードよみとりそうち

card reader