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Kanji for Chick
The kanji for “chick” is 雛, read suu and written in 18 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
雛
chick
A young bird; also the dolls displayed for the Girls’ Festival (雛祭り).
18 strokes On reading スウ、ス、ジュ (suu, su, ju) Kun reading ひな、ひよこ (hina, hiyoko) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: chick, squab, duckling, doll
Readings used for names on Nazuke: su, hina
In Japan it appears in about 96 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
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