鮮 – fresh, vivid, clear

17 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#355 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 鮮 means fresh, vivid, clear, brilliant, Korea. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is セン (sen); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is あざ.やか (azayaka). It is written with 17 strokes, under radical 魚 (no. 195).

Stroke order

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

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	セン	sen
Kun’yomi	あざ.やか	azayaka

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: 魚 (Kangxi radical 195). Components: 王・魚・田・并・羊・杰.

Words using 鮮

新鮮しんせんfresh鮮やかあざやかvivid

Example sentences

どうやって新鮮な魚をえらぶのですか。

How can I pick out fresh fish?

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月は鮮やかに輝いていた。

The moon was shining brightly.

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Kanji with the same radical

魚鯨

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