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Kanji · JLPT N5 · Level 7

station

Meaning
station
On reading
Kun reading
Memory hook

馬 (horse) beside 尺. Where the horses were changed on the old post road, now the train station. エキ. It is read エキ almost everywhere.

Words that use 駅

station
in front of the station

How to write 駅

Stroke order · 14 strokes
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  1. 1. Vertical.
  2. 2. Horizontal.
  3. 3. Vertical.
  4. 4 to 5. Horizontal.
  5. 6. Horizontal, then turn down, ending in a hook.
  6. 7 to 10. A short dot.
  7. 11. Horizontal, then turn down.
  8. 12. Horizontal.
  9. 13. Vertical.
  10. 14. 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).

駅 is taught on day 28 of the kanji course, alongside , with two writing passes and a short quiz.