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貞

upright
Stroke count: 9

Readings

On readingテイ、ジョウ
Kun readingただし.い、さだ

Meanings

  1. uprightRtK
    貞子は西に沈んでゆく太陽をみて、メクラになった。Sadako watched the sun lowering in the west and became blind.tatoeba
    挿絵は歌川国貞。The illustrator was Kunisada UTAGAWA.wiki
  2. chastity
  3. constancy
  4. righteousness
  1. firm adherence to one's principles
  2. chastity (of a woman)

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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magic wand · augury · divining rod · shellfish · clam · oyster · eye (目) · animal legs (儿) · eight (八)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 58

Compound words

藤氏家伝 貞慧伝
Biography of Joe, Toshi Kaden (Biographies of the Fujiwara clan)wiki
挿絵は歌川国貞。
The illustrator was Kunisada UTAGAWA.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.

妻が堅く貞操を守ること。
つまがかたくていそうをまもること。A wife maintaining chastity firmly.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

9 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 貞

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