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Kanji for Chant
The kanji for “chant” is 謡, read you and written in 16 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
謡
chant
A song or chant, as in the Noh songs called utai.
16 strokes On reading ヨウ (you) Kun reading うたい、うたう (utai, utau) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: song, sing, ballad, noh chanting
Readings used for names on Nazuke: uta, you
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