Kanji N3

晴: clear up

晴 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning clear up, written with 12 strokes. It is read セイ (on) and はれる, はれ, はらす (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 2. You will see it in 晴れ (はれ, clear weather) and 晴れる (はれる, to clear up).

晴

Meanings

  • clear up
Strokes12
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 2
Frequency#1022 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • セイ

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

Kun reading
  • はれる
  • はれ
  • はれ-
  • -ばれ
  • はらす

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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Now draw it

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Common words with 晴

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

  • 晴れはれ

    clear weather; fine weather

    JLPT N5
  • 晴れるはれる

    to clear up; to clear away; to be sunny

    JLPT N5
  • 晴天せいてん

    fine weather (i.e. little or no clouds)

    JLPT N1
  • 快晴かいせい

    clear weather; cloudless weather; good weather

    JLPT N2
  • 見晴らしみはらし

    (scenic) view; prospect; outlook

    JLPT N1
  • 晴らすはらす

    to dispel; to clear away; to refresh (oneself)

  • 秋晴れあきばれ

    clear autumnal weather

  • 見晴らすみはらす

    to command a view

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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; the Spanish meanings they lack, translated by Naraio from their English, are shared under the same licence. Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY. Sentences split into words with IPADIC © NAIST and IPA, through Lindera.