詞 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning

part of speech, words, poetry

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • Elem.
Kun (native)
  • ことば
Other languages
  • 拼音ci2
  • 한글sa
  • Hán-ViệtTừ

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

Basics

Strokes
12 strokes
Radical
言(げん)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 2
Unicode
U+8A5E

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰言司

Words using this kanji

  • (シ)古典中国語における韻文の形式のひとつ。唐代の詩(いわゆる漢詩・唐詩)から発展し、宋代に確立した。宋詞。words, writing, lyrics, ci (form of Chinese poetry)
  • 詞章ししょう詩歌や文章。 歌曲や浄瑠璃など、音楽的要素のある演劇作品の文章。poetry and prose
  • 詞賦しふChinese poetry
  • 詞華集しかしゅうanthology (of poems), florilegium
  • 詞書きことばがきforeword to a collection of poems, preface, explanatory notes, captions

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

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Lookup codes

SKIP
1-7-5
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0762.0
Spahn–Hadamitzky
7a5.15
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2009
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4335