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泌 — Ooze

JLPT N18 strokesSecondary school#2112 most used
ooze, flow, soak in, penetrate, secrete
On’yomiヒツ (hitsu)
On’yomi (hi)
Kun’yomi

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 泌

WordReadingMeaning
分泌ぶんぴつ
bunpitsu
secretion
内分泌ないぶんぴつ
naibunpitsu
endocrine; incretion; internal secretion
泌尿器ひにょうき
hinyouki
urinary organs

Study notes

泌 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 8 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #2112 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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