EntryCommon
  1. Ichidan verb, Transitive verb

    to play an instrument (esp. string instruments)

    もしも、音楽が愛の糧であるならば、奏で続けよ。
    If music be the food of love, play on.
  2. Ichidan verb, Intransitive verb

    to dance

    Obsolete term

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

play music, speak to a ruler, complete

Kun
かな.でる
On
ソウ
Strokes
9
Taught
Grade 6
JLPT
N1
Frequency
1067 of 2500
Radical
big
WaniKani
Level 38

Built from

Used in names as

すすむ

Dictionary and index codes (31)
CodeReference
2-5-4, 4-9-4SKIP code
0a9.17The Kanji Dictionary
5043.0Four corner code
1463deroo
594fUnicode hex code
1-33-53JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1178Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1156New Nelson (John Haig)
2577New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3185Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1645Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2233Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1571Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1693Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
845A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
951Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1643Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
5915Morohashi
918A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1544Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1646Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1178Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
930henshall3
890Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1679Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
418Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1585Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
zou4Pinyin reading
juKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
38WaniKani level