鵺 — 19 strokes / Radical「鳥」
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- On
- コウ・ヤこう・や · kō · ya
- Kun
- ぬえnue
- Meaning
- a legendary night creature
Stroke order
Origin
Bird 鳥 with 夜, night, as phonetic: the bird that cries eerily in the night; also anything of unknown nature.
Compounds
- 鵺ぬえ
a chimera
- 鵺的ぬえてき
ambiguous; hard to pin down
Example
鵺的な態度で答える。
They answer in a way hard to pin down.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
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