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雅

13 strokes
Radical:
small bird 隹
Parts:
牙 隹
gracious, elegant, graceful, refined
Kun:
みや.び
On:
ガ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1192 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 雅 【ガ】 elegance, grace, festal song (genre of the Shi Jing)
  • 雅致 【ガチ】 artistry, good taste, elegance, grace
  • 清雅 【セイガ】 graceful, elegant
  • 大雅 【タイガ】 major festal song (subgenre of the Shi Jing)

Kun reading compounds

  • 雅 【みやび】 refinement, elegance, grace
  • 雅び男 【みやびお】 elegant and refined man

Readings

Japanese names:
う、 お、 か、 ただし、 のり、 まさ、 まさし、 よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ya3, ya1
Korean:
a

Spanish

  • elegante
  • refinado
  • gracioso

Portuguese

  • elegante
  • benévolo
  • gracioso
  • refinado

French

  • bon goût
  • élégant
  • gracieux
  • raffiné
1057 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1271 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2850 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1211 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1885 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1913 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1456 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1550 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1638 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1853 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1532 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
811 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1106 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1926 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
41973 Morohashi
1197 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6505 New Nelson (John Haig)
1907 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2056 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1684 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3275 2001 Kanji
8c5.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-8 SKIP code
1021.4 Four corner code
7021.4 Four corner code
1-18-77 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
96c5 Unicode hex code

言

7 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
言
say, word
Kun:
い.う、 こと
On:
ゲン、 ゴン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
83 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 言 【ゲン】 word, remark, statement
  • 言及 【ゲンキュウ】 reference, allusion
  • 過言 【カゴン】 exaggeration, overstatement, saying too much, misstatement, slip of the tongue, gaffe
  • 狂言 【キョウゲン】 kyogen, farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play, kabuki play, kabuki performance, make-believe, ruse, trick
  • 言語 【ゲンゴ】 language
  • 言下 【ゲンカ】 promptly
  • 過言 【カゴン】 exaggeration, overstatement, saying too much, misstatement, slip of the tongue, gaffe
  • 二言 【ニゴン】 double-dealing, double tongue, going back on what one has said, repeating oneself

Kun reading compounds

  • 言う 【いう】 to say, to utter, to declare, to name, to call, to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"), to make a noise
  • 言うまでもない 【いうまでもない】 goes without saying, needless to say, obvious
  • 言 【げん】 word, remark, statement
  • 言葉 【ことば】 language, dialect, word, phrase, expression, term, speech, (manner of) speaking, (use of) language, words, remark, statement, comment, learning to speak, language acquisition
  • 禍言 【まがごと】 ominous word, ill-omened word, misfortune
  • 二言 【ふたこと】 two words, repetition

Readings

Japanese names:
とき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yan2
Korean:
eon

Spanish

  • palabras
  • decir

Portuguese

  • Dizer
  • palavras

French

  • dire
392 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
118 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
274 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
279 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4309 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
43 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
85 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
439 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.8 Japanese for Busy People
66 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
66 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
203 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1653 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2440 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1233 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1698 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
341 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35205 Morohashi
1941 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5552 New Nelson (John Haig)
335 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
357 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
44 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
142 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3077 2001 Kanji
7a0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-1-6 SKIP code
0060.1 Four corner code
1-24-32 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8a00 Unicode hex code