燕 – vocab dash

Keyword

swallow (bird)

Frequency: #2147
Strokes: 16
Grade: 9
Heisig: 2882

Readings

つばめ100%

Stroke order

Composed of

廿twenty 北north 口mouth 灬fire sparks

Used in kanji

嚥swallow 臙rouge 讌banquet 醼offer food and wine one's guests

Used in vocabulary

swallow (bird of the Hirundinidae family); martin; barn swallow (Hirundo rustica); younger man involved with an older woman; boy toy

Noun

燕えん窩か

swift's nest (used to make bird's nest soup)

Noun

飛ひ燕えん

swallow in flight

Noun

燕えん尾び服ふく

tailcoat

Noun

燕子花かきつばた

rabbitear iris (Iris laevigata)

Noun

燕えん脂じ

dark-red pigment; rouge; dark red; deep red; cochineal

Noun

燕えん麦ばく

oat (Avena sativa); oats

Noun

燕つばめ返がえし

quickly reversed cut (sword technique); swallow counter (judo technique); swallow flight reversal; swapping one's hand with the bottom row of the nearest wall (cheating technique); completing a hand with an opponent's discarded riichi tile

Noun

岩いわ燕つばめ

Asian house martin (Delichon dasypus)

Noun

燕えん雀じゃく

small bird (like a swallow or sparrow); small-minded person; person lacking in character

Noun