Kanji N1

譜: musical score, music, note

譜 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning musical score, music, note, written with 19 strokes. It is read フ (on), and has no common kun reading. It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 楽譜 (がくふ, score) and 系譜 (けいふ, genealogy).

譜

Meanings

  • musical score
  • music
  • note
  • staff
  • table
  • genealogy
Strokes19
JLPT levelN1
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#1919 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • フ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • None in common use

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

Watch the stroke order

Every stroke in order, the live one in vermilion. Replay as often as you like.

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Trace each stroke in order. Wrong direction or wrong order gets flagged right away.

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Your turn: draw stroke 1 of 19. Start at the dot.

Common words with 譜

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 楽譜がくふ

    score; sheet music

    JLPT N1
  • 系譜けいふ

    genealogy; lineage; family tree; pedigree

  • 譜面ふめん

    sheet music; score

  • 棋譜きふ

    record of a game of go, shogi, chess, etc.

  • 年譜ねんぷ

    chronological record

  • 新譜しんぷ

    newly released music; new release

  • 譜ふ

    (sheet) music; (musical) note; (musical) score

  • 五線譜ごせんふ

    staff notation

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.