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叙 — Confer

JLPT N19 strokesSecondary school#1954 most used
confer, relate, narrate, describe
On’yomiジョ (jo)
Kun’yomiつい (tsuizu)
Kun’yomiついで (tsuide)

Stroke order (9 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

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

Common words using 叙

WordReadingMeaning
叙勲じょくん
jokun
conferring of decorations
叙情じょじょう
jojou
lyricism; description of one's feelings
叙事詩じょじし
jojishi
epic (poem); epic poetry
自叙伝じじょでん
jijoden
autobiography
叙述じょじゅつ
jojutsu
description; account; delineation

Study notes

叙 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 9 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1954 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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