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啄 — Peck

JLPT N110 strokesSecondary school#2463 most used
peck, pick up
On’yomiタク (taku)
On’yomiツク (tsuku)
On’yomiトク (toku)
Kun’yomiついば (tsuibamu)
Kun’yomiつつ (tsutsuku)

Stroke order (10 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).

Common words using 啄

WordReadingMeaning
啄木たくぼく
takuboku
woodpecker

Study notes

啄 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 10 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #2463 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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