Entry
  1. Noun

    high-ranking noh actor

    see 能太夫

  2. head of a school of noh performance

  3. high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara; Edo period)

    Historical term

  4. jōruri narrator; manzai narrator

    see 浄瑠璃see 万歳see まんざい

  5. female role actor in kabuki

    see 女形

  6. lord steward (formerly the fifth court rank)

  7. head of a sarugaku troupe

    Historical termsee 猿楽座

  8. senior priest at a Shinto shrine

    see 禰宜

Also written 大夫【たゆう】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

plump, thick, big around

Kun
ふと.いふと.る
On
タイ
Strokes
4
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N3
Frequency
552 of 2500
Radical
big
WaniKani
Level 3

Built from

Used in names as

おおたかひろ

Dictionary and index codes (33)
CodeReference
2-3-1, 4-4-4SKIP code
0a4.18The Kanji Dictionary
4003.0Four corner code
1463deroo
592aUnicode hex code
1-34-32JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1172Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1137New Nelson (John Haig)
2152New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2673Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1360Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1846Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
120Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
126Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
343A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
105Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
508Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
5834Morohashi
164A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
629Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
639Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
269sakade
151Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
181henshall3
98Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
257crowley
124Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
409Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
121Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
tai4Pinyin reading
taeKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
3WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

husband, man

Kun
おっとそれ
On
フウ
Strokes
4
Taught
Grade 4
JLPT
N3
Frequency
335 of 2500
Radical
big
WaniKani
Level 15

Built from

Used in names as

ゆう

Dictionary and index codes (33)
CodeReference
4-4-4SKIP code
0a4.31The Kanji Dictionary
5003.0Four corner code
1463deroo
592bUnicode hex code
1-41-55JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
164Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1136New Nelson (John Haig)
3460New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4271Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2157Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2909Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
838Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
901Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
265A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
104Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
51Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
5835Morohashi
573A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
315Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
315Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
501sakade
445Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
601henshall3
445Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
220crowley
595Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
411Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
846Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
fu1, fu2Pinyin reading
buKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
15WaniKani level