The kanji 灯: meaning, readings and stroke order
灯
- Meaning
- light, lamp
- On reading
- トウ tou
- Kun reading
- ひ hi
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 火 fire
- Level
- Level 4 · grade 4
- Old form
- 燈
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- ngọn đèn (đăng)
- Japanese
- あかり。ともしび。
- Korean
- 등불 (정)
- Chinese
- 灯
Readings, words and example sentences
トウ tou · on reading
電灯
electric light
部屋の 電灯を つけます。
I turn on the light in my room.
ひ hi · kun reading · less common
灯
light, lamplight
遠くに 町の 灯が 見えます。
I can see the town lights far away.
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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.