Kanji · JLPT N5 · Level 8
魚 fish
- Meaning
- fish
- On reading
- ギョ
- Kun reading
- さかな
Memory hook
A head, a scaled body and a tail fin: a fish stood up on its tail. ギョ in compounds, さかな on its own.
Words that use 魚
魚
さかな
fish
金魚
きんぎょ
goldfish
How to write 魚
Stroke order · 11 strokes
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- 1. The sweep down to the left.
- 2. Horizontal, then sweep down to the left.
- 3. Vertical.
- 4. Horizontal, then turn down.
- 5. Vertical.
- 6 to 7. Horizontal.
- 8. The sweep down to the left.
- 9 to 11. The diagonal down to the right.
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).
魚 is taught on day 17 of the kanji course, alongside 花 田, with two writing passes and a short quiz.