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EntryCommonJLPT N3WaniKani 32

  1. Noun

    smell; scent; odour; odor; stench

    臭い used for unpleasant smells

    あの花はにおいが強いな。
    That flower has a powerful smell.

  2. aura; whiff; smack; flavour; flavor; mood

  3. faint, mist-like pattern along the temper line of a Japanese sword

Also written 臭い【におい】

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Characters in this word

1
匂
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

fragrant, stink, glow, insinuate, (kokuji)

Kun
にお.うにお.いにお.わせる
Strokes
4
Taught
Junior high
Frequency
2213 of 2500
Radical
勹 wrap

Built from

勹匕

Used in names as

おりこうさぎ

Words starting with 匂Words ending in 匂Anywhere in a word
Dictionary and index codes (19)
CodeReference
3-2-2SKIP code
0a4.7The Kanji Dictionary
2772.0Four corner code
2552deroo
5302Unicode hex code
1-38-87JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
742Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
567New Nelson (John Haig)
2944New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3662Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2548Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2147Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
478Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
73Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1895Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
2503Morohashi
1730Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
464Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
naeKorean reading