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虹 — Rainbow

JLPT N19 strokesSecondary school#2110 most used
rainbow
On’yomiコウ (kou)
Kun’yomiにじ (niji)

Stroke order (9 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

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

Common words using 虹

WordReadingMeaning
にじ
niji
rainbow

Study notes

虹 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 9 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #2110 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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