奏 — play music, speak to a ruler, complete

かなでる奏 play music

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes

U+594F Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1067 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1693 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

play music
speak to a ruler
complete

word

かな kana 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).

奏(かな) でる kanaderu to play music

そう sou On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

演(えん) 奏(そう) ensou performance (music) 奏(そう) 者(しゃ) sousha performer 協(きょう) 奏(そう) 曲(きょく) kyousoukyoku concerto 伴(ばん) 奏(そう) bansou musical accompaniment 吹(すい) 奏(そう) 楽(がく) suisougaku wind instrument music

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

𡗗 spring top

てん天 heaven

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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.

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