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張

JLPT N1 SL5 11 strokes Frequency: #403

Meanings

Lengthen, Counter For Bows & Stringed Instruments, Stretch, Spread, Put Up (tent)

Radicals

弓

Decomposition

⿰弓長

Etymology

Pictophonetic: bow

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 11

Stroke Order

1 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

2 horizontal bottom-to-top

3 corner bottom-to-top

4 vertical right-to-left

5 horizontal right-to-left

6 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

7 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

8 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

9 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

10 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

11 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

チョウ chou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

は ha

Words Using This Kanji

330 words total

Other (20 words)

guard

easing of tensions

boarding

leather-covered

stretching pieces of a kimono on boards to dry after they have been washed and starched

bragging

bar (e.g. on a door)

lookout

competition

papier-mâché

weather strip

large paper lantern on a pole

hyperbole

multilayered

turf war

wainscoting

half-moon

stringing a bow

paper lantern with bow-shaped handle

下種張るげすばる

to be churlish

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