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垂

Droop
Stroke count: 8

Readings

On readingスイ
Kun readingた.れる、た.らす

Verbs with «垂»

垂れる
  1. sauce (esp. soy or mirin-based dipping sauce)
  2. hanging
  3. something hanging (flap, lappet, etc.)
  4. (kendo) loin guard
  5. kanji radical enclosing the top-left corner of a character

Popular Usage

垂直

Radicals and components

Radical土earth
Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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drop (丶) · silage · walking cane · stick (丨) · one (一) · floor

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1705

Compound words

彼は恥ずかしさのあまり首を垂れた。
He hung his head in shame.tatoeba
彼は紙のうえに垂直な線を何本か引いた。
He drew some vertical lines on the paper.tatoeba
川岸で数人の男が糸を垂れている。
Several men are fishing from the riverbank.tatoeba
垂直に吊るして使用する。
This should be hung vertically to be used.wiki
日本刀の刃に向けて、垂直に弾丸を撃ち込む実験。
Experiment; bullets are shot against the cutting edge of Japanese sword blade.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.

涎を本の上へ垂らす
よだれをほんのうえへたらすDrooling onto a book.
犬は文句を垂れるように歩みを止めた
いぬはもんくをたれるようにあゆみをとめたThe dog stopped walking as if complaining.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

8 strokes

Hang down. Plant branches drooping toward 土 (the ground).

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 垂

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