Kanji1 / 14
歌 kanji
song, sing
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
カ
Kun readings
うたうたう
Words with 歌
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —雑歌miscellaneous poems
- —選歌selection of poems; selected poems
- —頌歌anthem; carol; hymn of praise
- —弦歌singing and (string) music
- —春歌bawdy song; lewd song; obscene song
- —本歌original verse poem
- —譚歌ballad
- —琉歌Okinawan fixed form poetry
- —笙歌singing and playing the shō
- —歌妓woman who earns her living by entertaining with song, dance and playing the shamisen; geisha who sings at parties
- —踏歌type of dance where the ground is stamped (Heian period)
- —長歌traditional Japanese poem with verses of five and seven morae repeated at least three times, usu. ending with a verse of seven; long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Kyoto in the late 16th century)
- —歌語word mainly used in tanka; poetical word
- —歌神god of waka; god of song; muse
- —会歌club song; organization song
- —歌意meaning of a song; meaning of a tanka
- —歌誌tanka magazine
- —棹歌boatmen's song
- —州歌(US) state song
- —霊歌spiritual (religious song)