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栗 — Chestnut

JLPT N110 strokesSecondary school#1550 most used
chestnut
On’yomiリツ (ritsu)
On’yomi (ri)
Kun’yomiくり (kuri)
Kun’yomiおののく (ononoku)

Stroke order (10 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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

Common words using 栗

WordReadingMeaning
くり
kuri
Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata)

Study notes

栗 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 10 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1550 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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