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楽 kanji
music, comfort, ease
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ガクラクゴウ
Kun readings
たのしいたのしむこのむ
Variant forms
樂Words with 楽
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —楽壇musical world
- —楽調musical tone
- —楽典compositional rules; musical grammar
- —楽律metre or rhythm in Chinese and Japanese traditional music
- —楽界musical world
- —田楽ritual music and dancing in shrines and temples; rice dance; rice festival; tofu (or fish, etc.) baked and coated with miso; turning something in the manner one would use to cook dengaku-tofu on both sides
- —奏楽musical performance
- —礼楽etiquette and music
- —楽長bandmaster; conductor
- —楽音musical note
- —楽節passage
- —漫楽manzai (comic dialogue) accompanied by music
- —楽句phrase
- —清楽Qing-era Chinese music (popularized in Japan during the early 19th century)
- —明楽Ming-era Chinese music (popularized in Japan during the early 17th century)
- —楽舞singing and dancing; song and dance
- —唐楽Tang-era Chinese music; tōgaku; style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance
- —左楽style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance
- —猿楽sarugaku (form of theatre popular in Japan during the 11th to 14th centuries); noh; fooling around
- —散楽form of ancient Chinese entertainment similar to a circus (brought to Japan during the Nara period)