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齢

齢 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. よわい。とし。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

「齡」の略体。「齡」については齡#字源の項目を参照。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

age

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • レイJHS
Kun (native)
  • よわい
  • とし
Other languages
  • 拼音ling2
  • 한글ryeong
  • Hán-ViệtLinh

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

Basics

Strokes
17 strokes
Radical
齒(は)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 2
Unicode
U+9F62

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰歯令

Words using this kanji

  • 齢よわい（よわい）年齢。(one's) age
  • 齢れい（よわい）年齢。instar (developmental stage of arthropods), age, years
  • 齢を重ねるよわいをかさねるto grow old, to age

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(105 results)

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-12-5
Four Corner
2873.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
6b11.5
Heisig
1505
Nelson
5431