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鴉

鴉 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

This stroke order diagram is drawn with 15 strokes; it can differ from the count above because the sources use slightly different glyph shapes.

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. からす。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「鳥」 + 音符「牙」。「カラス」を意味する漢語｛鴉｝を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

crow, raven

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ア
Kun (native)
  • からす
Other languages
  • 拼音ya1
  • 한글a
  • Hán-ViệtNha

Basics

Strokes
16 strokes
Radical
鳥(とり)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+9D09

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰牙鳥

Words using this kanji

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(10 results)

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-5-11
Four Corner
7722.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
11b5.3
Nelson
2851