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之

of
Stroke count: 3

Readings

On readingシ
Kun readingの、これ、ゆく、この
Grade 9KANJIDIC

Meanings

  1. ofRtK
    彼の名前は小倉知之です。His name is Tomoyuki Ogura.tatoeba
    坂崎幸之助はアルフィーに所属しています。Kounosuke Sakazaki belongs to "THE ALFEE".tatoeba
  2. this
  1. indicates possessive
  2. nominalizes verbs and adjectives
  3. substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases
  4. indicates a confident conclusion
  5. indicates emotional emphasis

Radicals and components

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Components
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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Zorro · building blocks · zig-zag

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1299

Compound words

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.

「鼻」は長い鼻をもつ僧侶の苦労を描いた芥川龍之介の小説です
「はな」はながいはなをもつそうりょのくろうをえがいたあくたがわりゅうのすけのしょうせつです“The Nose” is a story by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke about the troubles of a monk with a long nose.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

3 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 之

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