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鈴 — Small bell

JLPT N113 strokesSecondary school#880 most used
small bell, buzzer
On’yomiレイ (rei)
On’yomiリン (rin)
Kun’yomiすず (suzu)

Stroke order (13 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

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

Common words using 鈴

WordReadingMeaning
すず
suzu
bell (often globular)
風鈴ふうりん
fuurin
wind chime; wind bell

Study notes

鈴 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 13 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #880 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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