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Kanji VocabularyJLPT N1 › 佳

佳 — Excellent

JLPT N18 strokesSecondary school#1643 most used
excellent, beautiful, good, pleasing, skilled
On’yomi (ka)
Kun’yomi

Stroke order (8 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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Common words using 佳

WordReadingMeaning
佳作かさく
kasaku
fine (piece of) work; excellent work; work that receives an honourable mention
佳境かきょう
kakyou
most interesting part (of a story); climax; good part

Study notes

佳 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 8 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1643 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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