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曰

曰 is a Japanese kanji written with 4 strokes, listed here under the keyword “sayeth”. It is treated as a basic building block: it is not broken down any further here. In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 620.

Keyword
sayeth
RTK frame
620
Strokes
4
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
エツ
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
いわ.く, のたま.う, のたま.わく, ここに
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
say, говорить
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
曰 say

Decomposition

No decomposition is listed: this shape is used whole.

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