Illustration: At a Japanese calligraphy class, a teacher writes a single character on a practice sheet positioned behind a low tabletop screen, leaving the brush hand and upper shaft visible. A pupil watches the brush lifts closely and slides one bead along a counting frame for each completed stroke.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

画かく数すう

kakusuu

kanji stroke count

Example sentences

  1. 一ひとつの音おとには一ひとつの字じを統一とういつして使つかい、あまり画数かくすうの多おおい字じは使つかっていない。

    A Chinese character is used consistently for each sound, with characters needing many brushstrokes not being used.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. この漢字かんじの画数かくすうを数かぞえてみて。

    Try counting the strokes in this kanji.

    Written by AI for Bebop

  3. 辞書じしょで漢字かんじを画数かくすうから探さがした。

    I looked up the kanji in a dictionary by its stroke count.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 画数

  • 画picture; strokeOnガ・カク・エKunえがく・かくする・かぎる
  • 数number; strengthOnスウ・ス・サクKunかず・かぞえる・しばしば

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