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硝

nitrate
Stroke count: 12

Readings

On readingショウ

Meanings

  1. nitrateRtK
  2. saltpeter
  1. gunpowder smoke

Radicals and components

Radical石stone
Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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stone (石) · rock (石) · resemblance · spark · candle · small (小) · little (小) · moon (月) · month (月) · flesh (月) · part of the body (月)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 120

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.

その前に硝子の壺が一つありました
そのまえにがらすのつぼがひとつありましたIn front of it stood a single glass jar.
その硝子戸の裏側には、金文字でこうなっていました
そのがらすとのうらがわには、きむもじでこうなっていましたBehind that glass door, it said this in gold letters.
そして硝子の開き戸がたって、
そしてがらすのひらきどがたって、And a glass door was standing there,

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

12 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 硝

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