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呂

spine
Stroke count: 7

Readings

On readingロ、リョ
Kun readingせぼね
JōyōGrade 8KANJIDIC

Meanings

  1. spineRtK
    彼は風呂に入り、テレビをつけた。He took a hot bath and turned on the TV.tatoeba
    彼は風呂にはいるのをやめた。He refrained from taking a bath.tatoeba
  2. backbone
  1. bass range (in Japanese music)
  2. six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale
  3. japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)

Popular Usage

お風呂

Radicals and components

Radical口mouth囗variant
Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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mouth (口) · drop (丶)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 24

Compound words

お風呂おふろ
bath
露天風呂ろてんぶろ
open-air bath; rotenburo; rotemburo
風呂ふろ
bath; bathing; bathtub; bathroom; bathhouse
風呂屋ふろや
public bathhouse; bathhouse proprietor
風呂場ふろば
bathroom
風呂敷ふろしき
furoshiki; wrapping cloth; cloth wrapper
語呂ごろ
sound (of a sentence)
以呂波いろは
traditional ordering of the Japanese syllabary
伊呂波いろは
traditional ordering of the Japanese syllabary
伊呂葉いろは
traditional ordering of the Japanese syllabary
一風呂ひとふろ
(taking) a bath
塩風呂しおぶろ
(hot) saltwater bath
潮風呂しおぶろ
(hot) saltwater bath
風呂桶ふろおけ
bathtub (esp. wooden and bucket-shaped)
風呂釜ふろがま
bath heater
竈風呂かまぶろ
steam bath (often using brine)
仕舞風呂しまいぶろ
bath taken after everyone else (in the family)
風呂掃除ふろそうじ
cleaning the bath
トルコ風呂トルコぶろ
Turkish bath
ひとっ風呂ひとっぷろ
(taking) a bath
以呂波紅葉いろはもみじ
Japanese maple (Acer palmatum)
お風呂に入るおふろにはいる
to take a bath
御風呂に入るおふろにはいる
to take a bath

Additional Examples

彼は風呂にはいるのをやめた。
He refrained from taking a bath.tatoeba
彼はお風呂で歌うのが好きだ。
He likes to sing in the bathtub.tatoeba

Stroke Order

7 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 呂

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