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笛

笛 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. ふえ。
  2. 甲高い音で、演奏や警告を行うもの。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「竹」+音符「由」。「ふえ」を意味する漢語｛笛｝を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

flute, clarinet, pipe, whistle, bagpipe, piccolo

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • テキElem.
Kun (native)
  • ふえElem.
Nanori (used in names)
  • う
Other languages
  • 拼音di2
  • 한글jeog
  • Hán-ViệtĐịch

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
11 strokes
Radical
竹(たけ)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+7B1B

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱𥫗由

Words using this kanji

  • 笛ふえflute, fife, pipe, recorder
  • 笛吹きふえふきflute player, flutist, flautist, piper
  • 笛鯛ふえだいstar snapper (species of fish, Lutjanus stellatus)
  • 笛柱ふえばしらupstage left pillar (on a noh stage), next to the flute player
  • 笛座ふえざflute-player seating area (noh), behind upstage left
  • 笛竹ふえたけbamboo flute, bamboo for making flutes, wind and string instruments
  • 笛子てきしdizi, Chinese bamboo transverse flute
  • 笛奴鯛フエヤッコダイlongnose butterfly fish (Forcipiger flavissimus, species of butterflyfish from the Indo-Pacific), forcepsfish
  • 笛吹鯛ふえふきだいChinese emperor (species of emperor bream, Lethrinus haematopterus)
  • 笛小千鳥ふえこちどりpiping plover (Charadrius melodus)
  • 笛吹けども踊らずふえふけどもおどらずwe have piped unto you and ye have not danced

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

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Lookup codes

SKIP
2-6-5
Four Corner
8860.3
Spahn–Hadamitzky
6f5.6
Heisig
1192
Nelson
3382