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鴛 — 16 strokes ／ Radical「鳥」

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準1University / general ／ 16 strokes ／ Radical「鳥」
On
エン・オンえん・おん · en · on
Kun
おし・おしどりoshi · oshidori
Meaning
male mandarin duck

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Bird 鳥 with 夗 as phonetic: the male of the mandarin duck pair.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 鴛鴦おしどり

    mandarin duck

  • 鴛鴦夫婦おしどりふうふ

    devoted couple

More words with this kanji

  • 鴛鴦の契りえんおうのちぎり

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

池(いけ)に鴛鴦(おし)がつがいで泳(およ)いでいる。

A pair of mandarin ducks swims on the pond.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

鴛鴦夫婦鴛鴦夫婦鴛鴦鴛夫husban…婦woman鴦female…鳩pigeon鳳male…鳶black…鴇creste…鴨wild…奄cover苑garden掩cover淵deep…焰flame
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 鳥Map of reading エンAll maps

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

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