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Kanji · JLPT N5 · Level 7

electricity

Meaning
electricity
On reading
Kun reading
Memory hook

雨 (rain) over a hooked 田: lightning coming out of a rain cloud. デン. 電車 densha, a train; 電話 denwa, a telephone.

Words that use 電

train
telephone

How to write 電

Stroke order · 13 strokes
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  1. 1. Horizontal.
  2. 2. Vertical.
  3. 3. Horizontal, then turn down.
  4. 4. Vertical.
  5. 5 to 8. A short dot.
  6. 9. Vertical.
  7. 10. Horizontal, then turn down.
  8. 11 to 12. Horizontal.
  9. 13. Vertical, then turn across to the right, ending in a hook.

Stroke data from KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

General rules
  • Top to bottom, left to right.
  • Horizontal strokes before crossing vertical ones (十 = horizontal, then vertical).
  • Outside before inside - but close a box last (口).
  • A vertical that passes all the way through comes last (中).
  • Left-falling diagonal before right-falling (大).

電 is taught on day 29 of the kanji course, alongside , with two writing passes and a short quiz.