歌 — song, sing

うた歌 song

Grade 2 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 14 strokes art

U+6B4C Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #519 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #471 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

song
sing

word

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).

歌(うた) uta song 歌(うた) う utau to sing 歌(うた) 声(ごえ) utagoe singing voice 歌(うた) える utaeru to be able to sing

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

歌(か) 手(しゅ) kashu singer 国(こっ) 歌(か) kokka national anthem 和(わ) 歌(か) 山(やま) wakayama Wakayama (city/prefecture) 主(しゅ) 題(だい) 歌(か) shudaika theme song 短(たん) 歌(か) tanka tanka 歌(か) 詞(し) kashi lyrics 歌(か) 劇(げき) kageki opera 歌(か) 舞(ぶ) 伎(き) kabuki kabuki (Japanese theater)

Appears in idioms

四面楚歌四字熟語

four sides, Chu songs

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

くち口 mouth #30

哥 elder brother

けつ欠 lack #76

Phono-semantic compound (形声). The left side contains 口 (mouth) elements suggesting vocalization. 欠 (yawn, open mouth) reinforces the meaning. To sing a song.

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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.

#76 欠 lack