Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1580 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 16

Meaning: song, sing, ballad, noh chanting

Kunyomi: うた.い うた.う

Onyomi: ヨウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: speech

Examples

Onyomi Examples

ヨウキョク noh song

ミンヨウ folk song, popular song

カヨウ song, ballad

Kunyomi Examples

うたい noh chanting, recitation

うたいもの utai (noh chant) piece for recitation

じうたい noh chorus

すうたい bare noh chanting, vocal-only noh theater performance, with no dancing or instruments, unaccompanied utai

歌う うたう to sing, to sing of (love, beauty, etc.) in a poem, to express in the form of a poem, to recite (a poem)