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叙

confer
Stroke count: 9

Readings

On readingジョ
Kun readingつい.ず、ついで
JōyōGrade 8KANJIDIC

Meanings

  1. conferRtK
    彼の自叙伝が今日発売され、午前中に完売した。His autobiography was released today and was sold out by noon.tatoeba
    私は叙事詩よりも叙情詩の方が好きだ。I like lyric better than epic.tatoeba
  2. relate
  3. narrate
  4. describe
  1. conferring of decorations

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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scales · too much · umbrella · potato · small (小) · crotch

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1789

Compound words

叙勲じょくん
conferring of decorations
叙述じょじゅつ
description; account; delineation; narration; (a) predicative
叙情じょじょう
lyricism; description of one's feelings
自叙伝じじょでん
autobiography
叙事詩じょじし
epic (poem); epic poetry
叙位じょい
investiture
叙景じょけい
scenery
叙賜じょし
distributing ranks, rewards and pensions
叙事じょじ
narration
叙爵じょしゃく
conferring a peerage
陞叙しょうじょ
promotion
叙するじょする
to relate
叙利亜シリア
Syria
久濶を叙すきゅうかつをじょす
to apologize for a long neglect of friends (apologise)

Additional Examples

やがてジェラシーは叙事詩の１ページを飾り。
Jealousy embellishes a page of the epic.tatoeba

Stroke Order

9 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 叙

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step