奏 – play music, speak to a ruler, complete

9 strokesTaught in grade 6#1067 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 奏 means play music, speak to a ruler, complete. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ソウ (sou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is かな.でる (kanaderu). It is written with 9 strokes, under radical 大 (no. 37).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ソウ	sou
Kun’yomi	かな.でる	kanaderu

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 大 (Kangxi radical 37). Components: 一・禾・大・二・人.

Words using 奏

演奏えんそうmusical performance吹奏すいそうplaying (a wind instrument)

Example sentences

演奏は終わりかけていた。

The performance was almost over.

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Kanji with the same radical

大夫失天太央契奪奥奇奨奮奉奢

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.