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昔

JLPT N3 SL3 8 strokes Frequency: #1197

Meanings

Once Upon A Time, Antiquity, Old Times

Radicals

日

Decomposition

⿱廿日

Etymology

Ideographic: Twenty 廿 days ago 日

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 8

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

2 vertical right-to-left

3 vertical right-to-left

4 horizontal bottom-to-top

5 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

6 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

7 horizontal bottom-to-top

8 horizontal bottom-to-top

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

シャク shaku

セキ seki

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

むかし mukashi

Words Using This Kanji

37 words total

Other (17 words)

昔ながらむかしながら

unchanged (from long ago)

once upon a time

a long time ago

a long time ago

a long, long time ago

old person

a long time ago

the way it was

archiannelids of the genus Saccocirrus (esp. Saccocirrus major)

昔人間むかしにんげん

old-fashioned person

昔人むかしびと

previous generations

昔懐かしいむかしなつかしい

reminiscent of the good old times

二昔ふたむかし

way in the past

今昔物語こんじゃくものがたり

Konjaku Monogatarishū (abbr) (31-volume collection of stories written during the late Heian period)

今昔物語集こんじゃくものがたりしゅう

Konjaku Monogatarishū (31-volume collection of stories written during the late Heian period)

一昔ひとむかし

an age (ago)

一昔前ひとむかしまえ

long ago

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