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
- —愛の賛歌Hymne a l'amour (song popularized by Edith Piaf)
- —三歌斎経Triodion; Lenten Triodion
- —アルト歌手alto (voice or singer)
- —俳諧の連歌haikai no renga (humorous, often vulgar style of renga which emerged in the 16th century)
- —歌詞カードlyric sheet; card with the lyrics to a song
- —オペラ歌手opera singer
- —仏足石歌体form of poetry found on the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara (following a 5-7-5-7-7-7 moraic pattern)
- —歌舞伎狂言kabuki play; kabuki drama; kabuki script
- —歌舞伎舞踊kabuki dance
- —歌舞伎踊りearly kabuki dance
- —若衆歌舞伎young men's kabuki
- —阿国歌舞伎Okuni kabuki; progenitor of modern kabuki, developed by Izumo Taisha shrine maiden Izumo no Okuni and popularized in Kyoto (early Edo period)
- —遊女歌舞伎harlots' kabuki; prostitutes' kabuki
- —歌舞伎芝居kabuki play
- —江戸歌舞伎Edo-style kabuki
- —上方歌舞伎kabuki in the Kyoto-Osaka style
- —勅撰和歌集poems collected at the behest of the Emperor (from 905 to 1439); Imperial collection of poetry
- —古今和歌集Kokin Wakashū (Heian-period collection of poetry)
- —三十六歌仙the thirty-six immortal poets (of the Heian period; as named by Fujiwara no Kintō)
- —宝塚歌劇団Takarazuka Revue