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嶺 — Peak

JLPT N117 strokesSecondary school#1959 most used
peak, summit
On’yomiレイ (rei)
On’yomiリョウ (ryou)
Kun’yomiみね (mine)

Stroke order (17 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

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

Common words using 嶺

WordReadingMeaning
分水嶺ぶんすいれい
bunsuirei
watershed; divide; turning point
高嶺たかね
takane
high peak

Study notes

嶺 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 17 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1959 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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