Kanji1 / 7
芸 kanji
technique, art, craft, performance, acting, trick, stunt
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
ゲイウン
Kun readings
うえるのりわざ
Variant forms
秇藝Words with 芸
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —顔芸(skill of) making funny faces; facial performance
- —指芸posing and moving the fingers as an art form; finger-tutting
- —書芸calligraphic art; calligraphy (as an art)
- —秘芸secret technique; secret art
- —隠し芸one's party piece; parlor trick; hidden talent
- —曲芸師acrobat; tumbler
- —芸術的artistic
- —芸能界show business; entertainment industry; world of entertainment
- —手工芸handicrafts
- —殿様芸dilettantism; amateurism (in art)
- —陶芸家potter
- —内芸者geisha living and working in a restaurant, inn, etc. (as opposed to in a geisha house); in-house geisha
- —民芸品(article of) folk craft
- —大道芸street performance
- —園芸学horticultural science; horticulture
- —園芸家horticulturist
- —工芸品handicraft; industrial art object
- —お家芸one's specialty; one's forte; specialty of a kabuki school
- —手芸品handicrafts; hand-crafted goods
- —文芸学study or science of literature; a liberal arts department