唄 — song, ballad

うた唄 song

うた

U+5504 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #2051 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #57 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

song
ballad

Readings

On'yomi: ばい bai
Kun'yomi: うた uta

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うた uta Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

唄(うた) uta song 唄(うた) う utau to sing (folk songs) 長(なが) 唄(うた) nagauta long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Edo in the early 17th century)

Words by frequency and grade

3 words

Each dot is a word containing 唄: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 1 word has no frequency rank; it sits in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

くち口 mouth #30

かい貝 shellfish #154

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#30 口 mouth