The kanji 詞: meaning, readings and stroke order

詞

Meaning: words, lyrics
On reading: シ shi
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 12
Radical: 言 speech
Level: Level 6 · grade 6

Stroke order

Stroke order of 詞, 12 strokes: each box adds one stroke, the red one is the stroke being written

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: lời, từ (từ)
Japanese: ことば。うたのことば。
Korean: 말, 가사 (사)
Chinese: 词、歌词 (词)

Readings, words and example sentences

シ shi · on reading

歌か詞し
song words, lyrics
歌か詞しを覚えて歌います。
I learn the words and sing the song.

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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.