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壁

wall
Stroke count: 16

Readings

On readingヘキ
Kun readingかべ

Meanings

  1. wallRtK
    彼は壁にペンキの上塗りをした。He put the final coat of paint on the wall.tatoeba
    彼は壁を全て緑色に塗った。He painted all the walls green.tatoeba
  2. fence
  3. lining (stomach)
  1. partition
  2. barrier
  3. obstacle
  4. hindrance

Radicals and components

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Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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ketchup · flag (方) · mouth (口) · spicy · stand up (立) · vase · ten (十) · needle (丨) · soil (土) · dirt (土) · ground (土)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1616

Compound words

彼は壁の上に直線を書いた。
He drew a straight line on the wall.tatoeba
彼は壁の穴をふさいだ。
He filled up the hole in the wall.tatoeba
彼は壁に本棚を取り付けた。
He fixed the bookshelf to the wall.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

部屋の壁や、小さい火鉢は思い出す事が出来るけれども、
へやのかべや、ちいさいひばちはおもいだすことができるけれども、I can remember the room wall and the small hibachi, but
壁の向こうへと手を伸ばす
かべのむこうへとてをのばすReaching a hand beyond the wall.
二、三回土の壁を叩くと、ボロボロと壁は崩れる
に、さんかいどのかべをたたくと、ぼろぼろとかべはくずれるKnock on the earthen wall two or three times and it crumbles away.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

16 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 壁

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