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諭

rebuke
Stroke count: 16

Readings

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Meanings

  1. rebukeRtK
    福沢諭吉は日本に西洋思想を広めた。Yukichi Fukuzawa introduced Western ideas into Japan.tatoeba
    福澤諭吉の福澤心訓Precepts of Yukichi FUKUZAWAwiki
  2. admonish
    先生は生徒たちに不注意を諭した。The teacher admonished his pupils for carelessness.tatoeba
  3. charge
  4. warn
  5. persuade
  1. to make (someone) understand (a fault, mistake, etc.)
  2. to reason with
  3. to advise
  4. to try to persuade
  5. to exhort

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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say (言) · words (言) · keitai · mouth (口) · meeting of butchers · moon (月) · month (月) · flesh (月) · part of the body (月) · sword (刀) · sabre (刀) · saber (刀)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 376

Compound words

福澤諭吉らと親しむ。
He made friends with Yukichi FUKUZAWA and others.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.

諭吉がほしい
ゆきちがほしいI want a Yukichi (a 10,000-yen note).

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

16 strokes

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Practice Writing 諭

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