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廊

Corridor
Stroke count: 12

Readings

On readingロウ
JLPT level: N1JōyōGrade 8Level 31

Meanings

  1. corridorRtK
  2. hall
    胆のうの手術でしたら、この廊下をずっと行って右に曲がってください。For gall bladder surgery, go down this hall and take a right.tatoeba
    授業が終わると、子供たちは廊下へ飛び出した。The lesson being over, children ran out into the hall.tatoeba
  3. gallery
    彼はよく画廊に足を運んだ。He haunted the art galleries.tatoeba
    時間があるなら、彼の画廊に寄ってみたら。Better drop by his gallery if you have time.tatoeba
  1. passage

Popular Usage

廊下

Radicals and components

Radical广dotted cliff
Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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cave · son · halo · good · drop (丶) · silver (金) · city walls

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1996

Compound words

廊下ろうか
corridor; hallway; passageway
画廊がろう
art gallery (esp. artworks for sale); picture gallery
回廊かいろう
corridor; gallery; hallway; cloister (i.e. covered walk typically circling a building or garden, esp. in a palace or place of worship)
廻廊かいろう
corridor
身廊しんろう
nave (of a church)
側廊そくろう
aisle (of a church)
柱廊ちゅうろう
pillared corridor
長廊ちょうろう
long corridor
歩廊ほろう
corridor
翼廊よくろう
transept
渡廊下わたりろうか
covered walkway between buildings
渡り廊下わたりろうか
roofed corridor connecting two buildings

Stroke Order

12 strokes

Corridor. 广 (building) + 郎 — a long passage in a building. 廊下 — hallway.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 廊

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