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岳 — Point

JLPT N18 strokesSecondary school#1334 most used
point, peak, mountain
On’yomiガク (gaku)
Kun’yomiたけ (take)

Stroke order (8 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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

Common words using 岳

WordReadingMeaning
山岳さんがく
sangaku
mountain chain; mountains
たけ
take
(high) mountain; Mount; Mt.

Study notes

岳 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 8 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1334 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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