咄 — 8 strokes ／ Radical「口」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 8 strokes ／ Radical「口」
- On
- トツ
- Kun
- はなし・しか.る
- Meaning
- exclamation; a tale
Origin
Mouth 口 with 出 as phonetic: to cry out in surprise; in Japan also a spoken tale.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 咄嗟とっさ
in an instant
- 咄家はなしか
rakugo storyteller
Example
咄嗟の判断で事故を避けた。
A split-second judgement avoided the accident.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)