燕
swallow (bird)
16 strokes. Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names. Newspaper frequency rank 2147.
Readings
- つばめ (kun reading): 燕 (つばめ) swallow (bird of the Hirundinidae family); 燕返し (つばめがえし) quickly reversed cut (sword technique)
- エン (on reading): 飛燕 (ひえん) swallow in flight; 燕尾服 (えんびふく) tailcoat
- つばくら (kun reading)
- つばくろ (kun reading)
Components
- 廿
- 口
- 北
- 灬
- 匕 radical spoon
- 口 radical mouth
- ⺾ radical grass, top form of 艸
- ⺣ radical fire, bottom form of 火
- 爿 radical split wood, left half
Kanji containing 燕
Words using 燕
- 燕 (つばめ) swallow (bird of the Hirundinidae family)
- 燕返し (つばめがえし) quickly reversed cut (sword technique)
- 海燕 (うみつばめ) storm petrel (any bird of family Hydrobatidae)
- 腰赤燕 (こしあかつばめ) red-rumped swallow (Hirundo daurica)
- 若い燕 (わかいつばめ) young lover of an older woman
- 飛燕 (ひえん) swallow in flight
- 燕尾服 (えんびふく) tailcoat
- 燕子 (えんし) swallow
- 燕雀 (えんじゃく) small bird (like a swallow or sparrow)
- 燕青拳 (えんせいけん) Yangqingquan
21 words in all.