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浪

wandering, waves, billows, reckless, unrestrained

  • 10 strokes
  • Jōyō kanji taught in secondary school
  • No. 1508 of 2,500 in newspapers

On'yomi

ロウ

Kun'yomi

None listed.

Stroke order

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10

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 浪 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 浪 1 word

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

JLPT N1 · 1 word

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