錦
錦 — Brocade
brocade, fine dress, honors
On’yomiキン (kin)
Kun’yomiにしき (nishiki)
Stroke order (16 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 錦
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 錦 | にしき nishiki | brocade; fine dress; fine clothes |
| 錦絵 | にしきえ nishikie | nishiki-e; multi-colour woodblock print |
Study notes
錦 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 16 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1440 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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