刃
刃 — Blade
blade, sword, edge
On’yomiジン (jin)
On’yomiニン (nin)
Kun’yomiは (ha)
Kun’yomiやいば (yaiba)
Kun’yomiきる (kiru)
Stroke order (3 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 刃
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 刃物 | はもの hamono | edged tool; cutting instrument; knife |
| 刃 | は ha | edge (of a knife or sword); blade; prong (of an electrical plug) |
| 刃渡り | はわたり hawatari | length of a blade; walking barefoot on the edge of a sword blade (acrobatic stunt) |
| 出刃 | でば deba | broad-bladed kitchen knife (for dressing fish) |
| 両刃 | もろは moroha | double-edged (e.g. sword blade); double-beveled (e.g. kitchen knife); double-edged blade |
| 刃傷 | にんじょう ninjou | bloodshed |
Study notes
刃 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 3 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1763 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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