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宅

home, house, residence, our house, my husband

  • 6 strokes
  • Taught in grade 6 (kyōiku kanji)
  • No. 357 of 2,500 in newspapers

On'yomi

タク

Kun'yomi

None listed.

Stroke order

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6

Stroke order is from KanjiVG, copyright Ulrich Apel, under CC BY-SA 3.0. A kanji is drawn only where KanjiVG and KANJIDIC2 count the same number of strokes.

Shapes inside it

The shapes EDRDG's KRADFILE lists 宅 as containing. It is a lookup aid for finding a kanji by its parts: it says what the character contains, not where it comes from, and a shape need not be a kanji.

Written with 宅 7 words

Grouped by JLPT level, easiest first, and oldest first within a level.

JLPT N4 · 1 word

JLPT N3 · 3 words

JLPT N2 · 1 word

JLPT N1 · 2 words

Some of these words show it as a part of their “Taken apart” row: see the words taken apart with 宅.

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