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笳 — 11 strokes / Radical「竹」

道
1University / general (hardest) / 11 strokes / Radical「竹」
On
カか · ka
Kun
あしぶえashibue
Meaning
a reed pipe

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Bamboo 竹 with 加 as phonetic: the pipe made by rolling a reed leaf.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 胡笳こか

    the reed pipe of the northern peoples

  • 笳あしぶえ

    a reed pipe

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

胡(こ)笳の音(おと)が塞外(さいがい)に流(なが)れる。

The note of the reed pipe carries beyond the frontier.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

胡笳笳胡foreig…竽an anc…笏ritual…笊a bamb…笆a bamb…笨coarse戈halber…夭to die…夸to boa…呵to sco…珈a jewe…
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

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