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Zach

Reading

Kana:
Romaji: ri
Kana
Romaji

Name Reading

Kana: あき
Romaji: aki
Kana
Romaji

Meanings

glassy, lapis lazuli

Stroke Diagram

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Kanji Info

Stroke Count:  15
Radical Number:  96
Frequency: 
Grade:  8
Skip Pattern:  1-4-11
Korean Reading:  ri
Chinese Reading:  li2
Unicode:  7483
JIS:  4D7E

Indexes

Halpern Index: 1059
Nelson Index: 2967
New Nelson Index: 3669
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 4f10.5
Four Corner Index: 1012.7
Japanese Names Index: 2473
Daikanwanjiten Index: 21196X
Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 7.0964
Remembering the kanji Index: 2048
1999 Kanji Learners Index: 725
2013 Kanji Learners Index: 984
Remembering the Kanji 6th Index: 1606
Kodansha Kanji Index: 1358

Words

瑠璃 (るり)
lapis lazuli; lapis lazuli (color); beryl; mall blue passerine bird (esp. the blue-and-white flycatcher and the Siberian blue robin, but also the red-flanked bluetail); glass
人形浄瑠璃 (にんぎょうじょうるり)
Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku)
玻璃 (はり)
quartz; glass
瑠璃色 (るりいろ)
lapis lazuli blue; bright blue; azure
山瑠璃草 (やまるりそう、ヤマルリソウ)
Omphalodes japonica (species of flowering plant related to borage)
浄瑠璃 (じょうるり)
type of dramatic recitation accompanied by a shamisen (associated with the Japanese puppet theater)
操浄瑠璃 (あやつりじょうるり)
old name for the bunraku
瑠璃唐草 (るりからくさ、ルリカラクサ)
nemophila (Nemophila menziesii); baby blue-eyes
瑠璃野路子 (るりのじこ、ルリノジコ)
indigo bunting (Passerina cyanea)
瑠璃木葉鳥 (るりこのはどり、ルリコノハドリ)
Asian fairy bluebird (Irena puella)
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