Meanings
- be crowned with
- live under (a ruler)
- receive
戴 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning be crowned with, live under (a ruler), receive, written with 17 strokes. It is read タイ (on) and いただく (kun). It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 頂戴 (ちょうだい, receiving) and 戴冠式 (たいかんしき, coronation ceremony).
On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.
Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.
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