The kanji 乳: meaning, readings and stroke order
乳
- Meaning
- milk
- On reading
- ニュウ nyuu
- Kun reading
- ちち chichi、ち chi
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 乙 second
- Level
- Level 6 · grade 6
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- sữa (nhũ)
- Japanese
- ちち。ミルク。
- Korean
- 젖, 우유 (유)
- Chinese
- 奶、乳
Readings, words and example sentences
ニュウ nyuu · on reading
牛乳
milk
毎朝 牛乳を 飲みます。
I drink milk every morning.
ちち chichi · kun reading · less common
乳
mother's milk
赤ちゃんが 乳を 飲みます。
The baby drinks milk.
ち chi · kun reading · less common
乳首
nipple (of a baby bottle)
ほにゅうびんの 乳首を あらいます。
I wash the nipple of the baby bottle.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.