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碧 — Blue

JLPT N114 strokesSecondary school#2455 most used
blue, green
On’yomiヘキ (heki)
On’yomiヒャク (hyaku)
Kun’yomi

Stroke order (14 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

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

Common words using 碧

WordReadingMeaning
紺碧こんぺき
konpeki
deep blue; azure

Study notes

碧 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 14 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #2455 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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