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鵑 — 18 strokes ／ Radical「鳥」

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1University / general (hardest) ／ 18 strokes ／ Radical「鳥」
On
ケンけん · ken
Kun
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Meaning
a cuckoo

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Bird 鳥 with 肙 as phonetic: the bird that calls in early summer; written 杜鵑.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 杜鵑ほととぎす

    a cuckoo

  • 初夏しょか

    early summer

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

杜鵑(とけん)の声(こえ)を聞(き)く。

They hear the call of the cuckoo.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

初夏初夏杜鵑鵑初beginn…夏summer杜grove鳧a wild…鳰a greb…鴃a shri…鴆a pois…鴒a wagt…丱child'…拑to cla…姸beauti…俔to lik…柬to sel…
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Compound

Map of radical 鳥Map of reading ケンAll maps

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

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