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Kanji VocabularyJLPT N1 › 薫

薫 — Send forth fragrance

JLPT N116 strokesSecondary school#1849 most used
send forth fragrance, fragrant, be scented, smoke (tobacco)
On’yomiクン (kun)
Kun’yomiかお (kaoru)

Stroke order (16 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

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

Study notes

薫 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 16 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1849 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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