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詳 — Detailed

JLPT N113 strokesSecondary school#1178 most used
detailed, full, minute, accurate, well-informed
On’yomiショウ (shou)
Kun’yomiくわしい (kuwashii)
Kun’yomiつまびらか (tsumabiraka)

Stroke order (13 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

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

Common words using 詳

WordReadingMeaning
詳しいくわしい
kuwashii
detailed; full; minute
詳細しょうさい
shousai
details; particulars; specifics
詳報しょうほう
shouhou
detailed report; full report; details
不詳ふしょう
fushou
unknown; unidentified; unspecified
詳述しょうじゅつ
shoujutsu
detailed explanation

Study notes

詳 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 13 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1178 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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