鴎
seagull
15 strokes. Newspaper frequency rank 2187.
Readings
- かもめ (kun reading): 白鴎 (しろかもめ) glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus); 鴎髱 (かもめづと) chignon resembling a seagull's spread tail feathers (Edo-period women's hairstyle)
- オウ (on reading): 水鴎流 (すいおうりゅう) old sword fighting
Components
- 区
- 鳥
- ノ radical slash, katakana no
- 丶 radical dot
- 匚 radical box, open on the right
- ⺣ radical fire, bottom form of 火
- 鳥 radical bird