Kanji1 / 6
舌 kanji
tongue, reed, clapper
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ゼツ
Kun readings
した
Words with 舌
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —舌頂音coronal; coronal consonant
- —舌尖音apical consonant; apical; apex
- —舌端音laminal consonant; laminal
- —舌歯音linguadental consonant
- —広長舌long talk; long-winded speech; long tongue (one of the thirty-two marks of a great man)
- —舌痛症burning mouth syndrome; glossodynia; BMS
- —舌動脈lingual artery
- —金口木舌(public) opinion leader
- —舌禍事件trouble caused by a slip of the tongue
- —舌咽神経glossopharyngeal nerve
- —舌下神経hypoglossal nerve
- —舌鋒鋭いsharp (tongue, criticism, etc.); cutting; scathing
- —舌側矯正lingual orthodontics (e.g. braces)
- —舌下動脈sublingual artery
- —肺舌動脈lingular artery
- —口舌の争いwar of words; quarrel; dispute
- —長広舌を振るうto make a long-winded speech; to give a long talk
- —良性移動性舌炎benign migratory glossitis; geographic tongue
- —筆舌に尽くしがたいbeyond description
- —演舌speech; address