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特 — 10 strokes ／ Radical「牛」

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7Elementary year 4 ／ 10 strokes ／ Radical「牛」
On
トクとく · toku
Kun
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Meaning
special, particular

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

A phono-semantic character with 牛 (ox) and 寺 as the sound. It first meant a special bull, and came to mean special or particular.

OFFICIAL READINGS

Readings and examples

Onトクとくtoku特殊とくしゅ特産とくさん独特どくとく

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 特別とくべつ

    special

  • 特急とっきゅう

    express train

More words with this kanji

  • 特徴とくちょう
  • 特撮とくさつ
  • 特殊とくしゅ
  • 特輯とくしゅう

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

今日(きょう)は特別(とくべつ)な日(ひ)だ。

Today is a special day.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

特別特急特別separa…急hurry牧pastur…牛cow牟low牝female牡male徳virtue禿bald竺thick匿hide啄peck
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 牛Map of reading トクAll maps

Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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