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音 = 日 + 立

音 is a Japanese kanji written with 9 strokes, listed here under the keyword “sound”. It is built from 日 (day) and 立 (stand up). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 518. It appears as a component in 7 other characters in this index.

Keyword

sound

RTK frame

518

Strokes

9

On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)

オン, イン, -ノン

Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)

おと, ね

Script

Japanese kanji

Also known as

звук

Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi

音 sound

Decomposition

Characters that contain 音

• 暗 darkness
• 韻 rhyme
• 意 idea
• 闇 pitch dark
• 響 echo
• 竟 finally
• 戠 kazoo

How to find 音 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “day” + “stand up”. 音 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

Open 音 in the interactive kanji search to expand every part down to its smallest pieces, add your own names and mnemonic stories, or search for other characters by their parts.