婉 — 11 strokes ／ Radical「女」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 11 strokes ／ Radical「女」
- On
- エンえん · en
- Kun
- うつく.しい・したが.うutsuku.shii · shitaga.u
- Meaning
- graceful; indirect
Stroke order
Origin
Woman 女 with 宛 as phonetic: supple, without sharp edges.
Compounds
- 婉曲えんきょく
indirect; euphemistic
- 婉然えんぜん
graceful
- 婉麗えんれい
Example
婉曲に断ったつもりが通じなかった。
I meant it as an indirect refusal, but it did not get through.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)