Kanji
N2 14 strokes Grade 8 freq #1308

jump, dance, leap, skip

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

foot ashi

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

dancing; dance
dancing on a street corner
dance music; ballet music
kumi odori; traditional Ryūkyūan dance style
kabuki dance
traditional Japanese dance

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

dance
dancer (usu. female)
place for dancing; dance floor
Bon Festival dance; Lantern Festival dance
to be manipulated; to be made to dance
to dance (orig. a hopping dance)
naked dance; dancing naked
deer dance; costumed folk dance from NE Japan
comic performance in which a face is drawn on the bare belly and the performer dances to animate it
conference with much socializing but little real progress; the congress dances (but doesn't progress)

Example sentences

The sun having set, they were still dancing.

Let's go dancing, shall we?

The dancer in the middle of the room is ready to begin.

The dancer whirled around the hall.