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頡 — 15 strokes / Radical「頁」

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On
ケツ・キツ・カツ・ケチけつ・きつ・かつ・けち · ketsu · kitsu · katsu · kechi
Kun
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Meaning
to fly up

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Head 頁 with 吉, auspicious, as phonetic: a bird lifting its head and flying up.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 頡頏きっこう

    rivalling each other

  • 倉頡そうけつ

    the legendary inventor of writing

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

倉頡(そうけつ)が文字(もじ)を作(つく)ったという。

They say Cangjie created writing.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

倉頡頡頏頡倉wareho…頏the th…頌to pra…頤the ch…頽to cru…頷to nod顆a grai…孒mosqui…孑alone夬to dec…刔to gou…屹to tow…
CompoundRadicalReading

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