10 strokes
Jouyou kanji
Taught in 11th grade
JLPT exam level N1

song, ballad

Kun'yomi
  • song ②classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka) ③modern poetry
  • to sing ②to sing of (love, beauty, etc.) in a poem
On'yomi
  • バイ

Main Radical

(KanXi)

Reading Commonality

うたうた 99.4%
バイ 0.6%

Character Breakdown

song, ballad
うた バイ (11th, N1)
mouth
くち コウ ク (1st, N4)
shellfish
かい バイ (1st, N2)
eye, class, look
め モク ボク (1st, N4)
eight, eight radical (no. 12)
ハチ や はっ (1st, N5)

Common Words

(style of) folk song
long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Edo in the early 17th century)
traditional Okinawan folk music
short love song (popular in late Edo period)
Bon Festival dance song
singer in a nagauta performance
song sung behind the scenes
song sung behind the scenes
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References

Unicode hex code 5504
JIS X 0208 1-17-20
Nelson, A. Classic Nelson 924
Haig, J. New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary 802
Halpern, J. New Japanese-English Character Dictionary 400
Halpern, J. Kodansha Kanji Dictionary 477
Halpern, J. Kanji Learners Dictionary (Kodansha) 297
Halpern, J. Kanji Learners Dictionary (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) 358
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji 2178
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji, Sixth Ed. 57
O'Neill, P.G. Japanese Names 1045
Morohashi Daikanwajiten 3694
Spahn and Hadamitzky Kanji and Kana 2039
Spahn and Hadamitzky Kanji and Kana (2011 edition) 396
Tuttle Dictionary Descriptor Code 3d7.1
Four corner code 6608.0