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謡

song
Stroke count: 16

Readings

On readingヨウ
Kun readingうた.い、うた.う
JōyōGrade 8KANJIDIC

Meanings

  1. song
    あなたは童謡のレコードのセットをさがしているそうですね。I understand you're looking for a record album of nursery rhymes.tatoeba
    今様歌謡の集成。It was a corpus of imayo (popular style of song in Heian period) songs.wiki
  2. sing
    彼は、オペラはもちろんのこと、童謡すら歌えない。Opera! He cannot even sing children's songs!tatoeba
  3. ballad
  4. noh chantingRtK
  1. noh chant

Popular Usage

歌謡

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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noh chanting · say (言) · words (言) · keitai · mouth (口) · condor · claw · vulture · king (王) · mountain (山)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 2119

Compound words

歌謡かよう
song; ballad
童謡どうよう
children's song; nursery rhyme
民謡みんよう
folk song; popular song
謡曲ようきょく
noh song
歌謡曲かようきょく
kayōkyoku; form of Japanese popular music that developed during the Showa era; (Western) pop song
俗謡ぞくよう
popular song
謡いうたい
noh chanting
里謡りよう
ballad
俚謡りよう
ballad
神謡集しんようしゅう
collection of mythology
抒情歌謡集じょじょうかようしゅう
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
抒情民謡集じょじょうみんようしゅう
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Additional Examples

今様歌謡の集成。
It was a corpus of imayo (popular style of song in Heian period) songs.wiki

Stroke Order

16 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 謡

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