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娘 — Daughter

JLPT N310 strokesSecondary school#1145 most used
daughter, girl
On’yomiジョウ (jou)
Kun’yomiむすめ (musume)
Kun’yomi (ko)

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 娘

WordReadingMeaning
むすめ
musume
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
一人娘ひとりむすめ
hitorimusume
only daughter
娘婿むすめむこ
musumemuko
son-in-law
孫娘まごむすめ
magomusume
granddaughter

Study notes

娘 is a JLPT N3 kanji written with 10 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1145 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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