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雅

Elegant
Stroke count: 13

Readings

On readingガ
Kun readingみやび
JLPT level: N1JōyōGrade 8Level 40

Meanings

  1. elegant
  2. graceful
    醜いアヒルの子は優雅な白鳥となった。An ugly duckling became a graceful swan.tatoeba
  3. refined
  4. graciousRtK
  1. elegance
  2. grace
  3. festal song (genre of the Shi Jing)

Popular Usage

雅致

Radicals and components

Radical隹short bird
Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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tusk · turkey

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 2056

Compound words

雅致がち
artistry; good taste; elegance; grace
雅楽ががく
gagaku; ceremonial Japanese court music
優雅ゆうが
elegant; graceful; refined; leisurely; comfortable
温雅おんが
graceful
雅歌がか
Song of Solomon (book of the Bible)
雅懐がかい
aesthetic sentiment
雅客がかく
man of letters
雅兄がけい
you
雅号がごう
pen name, art name
雅趣がしゅ
elegance
雅称がしょう
elegant name
雅俗がぞく
refined and vulgar
高雅こうが
refined, lofty
典雅てんが
classical elegance
風雅ふうが
elegance, refinement
幽雅ゆうが
profound elegance
雅びたみやびた
elegant
雅やかみやびやか
elegant
雅楽允うたのじょう
second assistant court musician (ritsuryō system)
雅仙紙がせんし
Xuan paper (Chinese drawing paper)
雅びやかみやびやか
elegant
雅俗混淆がぞくこんこう
mixture of both culture and vulgarism
雅俗折衷がぞくせっちゅう
blending of the classical and colloquial styles
撒奇莱雅サキザヤ
Sakizaya (people)

Additional Examples

彼は、粘土で優雅な壷を形作った。
He fashioned an elegant pot out of clay.tatoeba
私は能楽が歌舞伎より好きだが、それは前者が後者よりも優雅に思えるからである。
I prefer Noh to Kabuki, because the former looks more elegant to me than the latter.tatoeba
昨日ここで雅子にあったのは私でした。
It was I who met Masako here yesterday.tatoeba
越前国守の大江雅致の娘。
She was a daughter of the governor of Echizen, OE no Masamune.wiki
文人の雅俗意識から囲碁は雅致がある遊戯として認められたのだろう。
It might be because Igo was recognized as a game of elegance in light of Bunjin's sense of elegance and vulgarian.wiki

Stroke Order

13 strokes

Elegant, refined. 牙 + bird 隹 — originally a crow; the sound gave the sense 'graceful, classical'.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 雅

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