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Kanji VocabularyJLPT N1 › 眺

眺 — Stare

JLPT N111 strokesSecondary school#1726 most used
stare, watch, look at, see, scrutinize
On’yomiチョウ (chou)
Kun’yomiながめる (nagameru)

Stroke order (11 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

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

Common words using 眺

WordReadingMeaning
眺めるながめる
nagameru
to look at; to gaze at; to watch
眺めながめ
nagame
scene; view; prospect
眺望ちょうぼう
choubou
view; vista; panorama

Study notes

眺 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 11 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1726 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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