鶴
鶴 — Crane
crane, stork
On’yomiカク (kaku)
Kun’yomiつる (tsuru)
Stroke order (21 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 鶴
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 鶴 | つる tsuru | crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis) |
Study notes
鶴 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 21 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1369 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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