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
- —四面楚歌being surrounded by enemies on all sides; being betrayed (forsaken) by everybody
- —悲歌慷慨indignant lamentation over the evils of the times
- —和歌山県Wakayama Prefecture (Kinki area)
- —鎮魂曲歌(sung) requiem
- —放歌高吟loud singing
- —高歌放吟singing at the top of one's voice
- —女歌舞伎girls' kabuki
- —新人歌手new singer
- —歌舞音曲singing, dancing and music; (public) entertainment; performing arts
- —歌舞伎座kabuki troupe; kabuki theater (theatre); Kabuki-za (theatre in Tokyo)
- —流行歌手popular singer; singer of pop songs
- —演歌歌手enka singer; singer of Japanese traditional ballads
- —仏足石歌poems inscribed beside the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara
- —歌舞伎劇kabuki play; kabuki drama
- —歌唱指導teaching of singing
- —地歌舞伎amateur kabuki performed at local festivals
- —本歌取りadaptation of a famous poem
- —人気歌手popular singer; pop idol
- —歌舞伎絵kabuki-e; shibai-e; kabuki ukiyo-e print
- —記紀歌謡ballad found in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki