艶

艶 — glossy, luster, glaze

JLPT: JLPT N1
Strokes: 19
Taught in: Secondary school
Frequency: #2207 most common

Readings

On'yomi came with the character from Chinese; kun'yomi is the native Japanese word it was borrowed for. A dot marks where okurigana takes over, a hyphen marks a prefix or suffix position.

On'yomi: えん en
Kun'yomi: つや tsuya

なま.めかしい nama.mekashii

あで.やか ade.yaka

つや.めく tsuya.meku

なま.めく nama.meku

Example words for this kanji are being written.

Words that use 艶

A kanji is worth learning for the words it unlocks. These are from the JLPT vocabulary lists.

艶つや gloss JLPT N2