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瑠 kanji
lapis lazuli
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Secondary school
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ルリュウ
Kun readings
NoneVariant forms
璢Words with 瑠
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —瑠璃Popularlapis lazuli; lapis lazuli (color); beryl; mall blue passerine bird (esp. the blue-and-white flycatcher and the Siberian blue robin, but also the red-flanked bluetail); glass
- —浄瑠璃jōruri; type of dramatic recitation accompanied by a shamisen (associated with Japanese puppet theater)
- —瑠璃色lapis lazuli blue; bright blue; azure
- —大瑠璃blue-and-white flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana)
- —小瑠璃Siberian blue robin (Luscinia cyane)
- —吠瑠璃beryl
- —瑠璃鶲red-flanked bluetail (species of flycatcher, Tarsiger cyanurus)
- —瑠璃鳥Formosan whistling thrush (Myophonus insularis); blue-and-white flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana)
- —瑠璃鶇eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis)
- —瑠璃貝elongate janthina (Janthina globosa)
- —瑠璃瓦blue-glazed roof tile
- —瑠璃唐草nemophila (Nemophila menziesii); baby blue-eyes
- —瑠璃立羽blue admiral (species of nymphalid butterfly, Kaniska canace)
- —瑠璃羽太gold-ribbon grouper (species of fish, Aulacocephalus temmincki)
- —瑠璃懸巣Lidth's jay (Garrulus lidthi)
- —瑠璃雀鯛sapphire devil (Chrysiptera cyanea)
- —山瑠璃草Omphalodes japonica (species of flowering plant related to borage)
- —瑠璃繁縷scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis)
- —大瑠璃草hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum zeylanicum)
- —人形浄瑠璃Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku)