玉 – jewel, ball

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The kanji 玉 means jewel, ball. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ギョク (gyoku); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is たま、たま-、-だま (tama, tama, dama). It is written with 5 strokes, under radical 玉 (no. 96).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ギョク	gyoku
Kun’yomi	たま	tama
Kun’yomi	たま-	tama
Kun’yomi	-だま	dama

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: 玉 (Kangxi radical 96). Components: 王・丶.

Words using 玉

玉たまball

Example sentences

彼の額には玉のような汗が浮かんでいた。

There were beads of sweat on his forehead.

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Kanji with the same radical

現理球環王珍琴班珠玩

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