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儒 — Confucian

JLPT N116 strokesSecondary school#2162 most used
Confucian
On’yomiジュ (ju)
Kun’yomi

Stroke order (16 strokes)

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Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).

Common words using 儒

WordReadingMeaning
儒教じゅきょう
jukyou
Confucianism
儒学じゅがく
jugaku
Confucianism

Study notes

儒 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 16 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #2162 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).

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