飾 – decorate, ornament, adorn

13 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#1193 in newspaper frequencyN4 vocabulary

The kanji 飾 means decorate, ornament, adorn, embellish. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ショク (shoku); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is かざ.る、かざ.り (kazaru, kazari). It is written with 13 strokes, under radical 食 (no. 184).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ショク	shoku
Kun’yomi	かざ.る	kazaru
Kun’yomi	かざ.り	kazari

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: 食 (Kangxi radical 184). Components: ノ・巾・食・一・人・乞.

Words using 飾

飾るかざるto decorate飾りかざりdecoration修飾しゅうしょくornamentation装飾そうしょくornament着飾るきかざるto dress up首飾りくびかざりnecklace

Example sentences

私たち自身が部屋を飾ったのです。

We decorated the room ourselves.

Tatoeba #164973

彼の絵が壁に飾られていた。

His pictures were hung on the wall.

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その箱に飾りのテープをかけてください。

Do up the box with decorative tape.

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Kanji with the same radical

食館養飲飯飼飢飽餅餌飴饉

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