The kanji 矢: meaning, readings and stroke order

矢

Meaning: arrow
On reading: シ shi
Kun reading: や ya
Strokes: 5
Radical: 矢 arrow
Level: Level 2 · grade 2

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: mũi tên (thỉ)
Japanese: や。
Korean: 화살 (시)
Chinese: 箭

Readings, words and example sentences

シ shi · on reading · less common

一いっ矢し
one arrow (striking back once)
後半にやっと 一いっ矢しをむくいました。
In the second half, we finally got one point back.

や ya · kun reading

矢や
arrow
弓で矢やをとばします。
I shoot an arrow with a bow.

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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.