Kanji
N1 24 strokes Grade 9 freq #1676

hawk

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

bird tori

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

Chinese sparrowhawk (Accipiter soloensis); gray frog hawk
common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)
hawk and falcon
falconry; hawking

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

hawk; falcon
falconer; hawker
one of the 72 climates (from the 11th of the second lunar month until the 15th)
falconry (using small hawks or falcons)
falconry
common nighthawk (Chordeiles minor)
group of buzzards (etc.) rising in an updraft (before the southward autumn migration); pillar of buzzards
eyes of a predator; sharp eyes
whip-poor-will (Caprimulgus vociferus); whippoorwill
Hodgson's hawk eagle (Nisaetus nipalensis); mountain hawk-eagle

Example sentences

Black hens lay white eggs.

The hawk has piercing eyes.