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雀

sparrow
Stroke count: 11

Readings

On readingジャク、ジャン、サク、シャク
Kun readingすずめ
Grade 9KANJIDIC

Meanings

  1. sparrowRtK
    雀は動作が非常にすばしこい。A sparrow is very alert in its movements.tatoeba
    あの人達はさかんに麻雀を楽しんでいた。They indulged in mahjong.tatoeba
  1. tree sparrow (Passer montanus)
  2. talkative person
  3. knowledgeable person

Radicals and components

Components
How it's built
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Compound words

あの人達はさかんに麻雀を楽しんでいた。
They indulged in mahjong.tatoeba
初めて麻雀にトライします。
I'm trying mah-jong for the first time.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.

歯のないおじさんに麻雀を教えてもらった。
はのないおじさんにまーじゃんをおしえてもらった。A toothless old man taught me to play mahjong.
麻雀の役を全部覚えたかい?
まーじゃんのやくをぜんぶおぼえたかい?Have you learned all the mahjong hands?

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

11 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 雀

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