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鵜 — 18 strokes ／ Radical「鳥」

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On
テイ・ダイてい・だい · tei · dai
Kun
うu
Meaning
cormorant

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

鳥 "bird" with 弟 as phonetic: the bird that dives for fish — the cormorant.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 鵜飼いうかい

    cormorant fishing

  • 鵜呑みうのみ

    swallowing whole; accepting uncritically

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

人(ひと)の話(はなし)を鵜呑(うの)みにしてはいけない。

You should not swallow what people say whole.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

鵜飼い鵜飼to kee…鳩pigeon鳳male…鳶black…鴇creste…鴦female…乃thereu…汀water’…剃shave釘nail迺namely
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Compound

Map of radical 鳥Map of reading テイAll maps

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

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