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
- —巻頭歌prefatory song or poem; opening song
- —譬喩歌metaphorical poem (of the Man'yōshū)
- —歌詞集book of lyrics
- —鎮魂歌requiem
- —哀傷歌lament; elegy; dirge; funeral song
- —旋頭歌traditional Japanese poem with six verses in a 5-7-7-5-7-7 moraic pattern
- —愛国歌patriotic song; The Patriotic Song (e.g. Aegukga, national anthem of South Korea)
- —葬送歌dirge; elegy; threnody
- —歌曲集song collection; collection of lieder
- —反戦歌anti-war song
- —物名歌acrostic poem in which consecutive morae form the disguised name of an animal, plant, place, etc.
- —和歌山Wakayama (city, prefecture)
- —六歌仙six immortals of poetry; six notable Japanese poets whose poems were included in the anthology Kokin Wakashū
- —和歌所Waka Office; government office responsible for compiling imperially commissioned anthologies of waka poetry
- —抒情歌lyric songs; sentimental ballads
- —学生歌student song; academic song
- —短歌行form of renku consisting of 24 verses
- —長歌行form of renku consisting of 48 verses
- —長恨歌Song of Everlasting Sorrow (poem by Bai Juyi); Song of Everlasting Regret; Chang Hen Ge
- —黒人霊歌African American spiritual; Negro spiritual; black spiritual