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飾

Decorate
Stroke count: 13

Readings

On readingショク
Kun readingかざ.る

Verbs with «飾»

飾る
  1. to decorate
  2. to ornament
  3. to adorn
  4. to display
  5. to exhibit

Popular Usage

飾る飾り着飾る首飾り

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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eat · food · umbrella · good · halo · drop (丶) · silver (金) · reclining · lying down · towel

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1587

Compound words

彼は室内装飾を学んだ。
He studied interior decoration.tatoeba
彼は故郷に錦を飾って帰ってくる。
A successful local boy is coming home.tatoeba
以下は黒い靴を銀で飾る。
The lower rank women decorated black shoes with silver.wiki
雛祭りの際に雛壇に飾る餅。
Mochi which is put on a doll-displaying stand during the Girl's Festival.wiki
置紋は菊の長飾り。
The heraldry is the Chrysanthemum with Nagakazari.wiki
吊るし飾りのひとつ。
It is one of the hanging ornaments.wiki

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.

つくづく、つまらない装飾だと思い、
つくづく、つまらないそうしょくだとおもい、I thought, really, what a dull decoration,
校門では生徒会が文化祭の飾りつけをしていた
こうもんではせいとかいがぶんかさいのかざりつけをしていたThe students' council was decorating for the culture festival at the school gate.
お店に多くのサインが飾られているが、誰も見向きもしない
おみせにおおくのさいんがかざられているが、だれもみむきもしないMany signs are displayed in the shop, but nobody pays attention.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

13 strokes

Decorate. 飠 + 巾 (cloth) — covering a table with fine cloth. 飾る — decorate.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 飾

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