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戯

frolic
Stroke count: 15

Readings

On readingギ、ゲ
Kun readingたわむ.れる、ざ.れる、じゃ.れる

Meanings

  1. frolicRtK
    人生はビールと九柱戯ばかりではない。Life is not all beer and skittles.tatoeba
  2. play
    年上の男の子達が彼にいつも悪戯ばかりしている。The older boys are always playing tricks on him.tatoeba
    彼はその戯曲にすばらしい序文を書いた。He wrote a fine preface to the play.tatoeba
  3. sport
  1. pleasantry
  2. joke
  3. tomfoolery

Popular Usage

悪戯戯曲

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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void · tiger · row · fiesta

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 2149

Compound words

年上の男の子達が彼にいつも悪戯ばかりしている。
The older boys are always playing tricks on him.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.

特に理由はない、ちょっとした悪戯心、マーキングのようなものだ
とくにりゆうはない、ちょっとしたいたずらしん、まーきんぐのようなものだNo particular reason, just a bit of mischief, like marking.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

15 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 戯

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