The kanji 隷: meaning, readings and stroke order
隷
- Meaning
- slave, subordinate
- On reading
- レイ rei
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 隶 slave, capture
- Level
- Level 7 · junior high school
- Old form
- 隸
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- nô lệ, lệ thuộc (lệ)
- Japanese
- どれい。したがう。
- Korean
- 노예, 매이다 (례·예)
- Chinese
- 奴隶、隶属 (隶)
Readings, words and example sentences
レイ rei · on reading · less common
奴隷
slave
むかしの 奴隷制度を 学びます。
We learn about slavery long ago.
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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.