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鴿 — 17 strokes ／ Radical「鳥」

道
1University / general (hardest) ／ 17 strokes ／ Radical「鳥」
On
コウこう · kō
Kun
はと・どばとhato · dobato
Meaning
a pigeon

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Bird 鳥 with 合, to join, as phonetic: the bird that grows tame with people — a pigeon.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 鴿はと

    a pigeon

  • 伝書鳩でんしょばと

    a carrier pigeon

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

寺(てら)の軒(のき)に鴿(どばと)が集(あつ)まる。

Pigeons gather under the temple eaves.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

伝書鳩伝書鳩伝書鳩鴿伝to tra…書to wri…鳩pigeon鳧a wild…鳰a greb…鴃a shri…鴆a pois…鴒a wagt…亢high扣to kno…伉to mat…扛to lif…芒an awn
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 鳥Map of reading コウAll maps

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

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