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鯛 — Sea bream

JLPT N119 strokesSecondary school#2446 most used
sea bream, red snapper
On’yomiチョウ (chou)
Kun’yomiたい (tai)

Stroke order (19 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

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

Common words using 鯛

WordReadingMeaning
タイ
tai
sea bream (esp. Pagrus major); porgy

Study notes

鯛 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 19 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #2446 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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