What does kanji 璃 mean?

The primary meaning of kanji 璃 is glassy.

How is kanji 璃 read?

The onyomi readings for kanji 璃 are リ.

What is the main radical of kanji 璃?

The main radical for kanji 璃 is 玉.

What words use kanji 璃?

Example words that use kanji 璃 include 琉璃, 浄瑠璃, 人形浄瑠璃, 小瑠璃.

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璃

Meaning

Kanji 璃

glassy

glassy, lapis lazuli

Stroke Order

Readings

Kunyomi 訓読み
Onyomi 音読み: リ
Nanori 名乗り: あき

Added to Jōyō: 2010

Jōyō: -
JLPT: JLPT N1
Frequency: -
Strokes: 15
Radical: 玉
Components: 亠 • 凵 • 王 • 禹
Kanji Kentei: Level 2
Similar Kanji: 漓 • 摛 • 褵 • 禽 • 縭 • 离 • 螭

Related vocabulary

Showing 21 common entries

Showing 21 of 32 entries that include this kanji.

琉璃

るり

beryl

浄瑠璃

じょうるり

jōruri

人形浄瑠璃

にんぎょうじょうるり

Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku)

小瑠璃

こるり

Siberian blue robin (Luscinia cyane)

浄玻璃

じょうはり

mirror found in hell in Enma's chamber that allows people to see their good and bad deeds

操り浄瑠璃

あやつりじょうるり

old name for the bunraku

大瑠璃

おおるり

blue-and-white flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana)

吠瑠璃

べいるり

beryl

玻璃

はり

glass

山瑠璃草

やまるりそう

Omphalodes japonica (species of flowering plant related to borage)

浄瑠璃語

じょうるりかたり

jōruri reciter

浄玻璃の鏡

じょうはりのかがみ

mirror found in hell in Enma's chamber that allows people to see their good and bad deeds

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Example sentences

5 reference sentences

その寺には瑠璃の名を持つ仏像がある。

That temple has a Buddha statue bearing the name Ruri.

彼女は瑠璃色の帯を選んだ。

She chose an obi in a lapis-lazuli blue color.

瑠璃のような空が広がっていた。

A sky as blue as lapis lazuli stretched overhead.

古い本に玻璃の器が描かれている。

A glass vessel is depicted in that old book.

その箱には瑠璃の玉が一つ入っていた。

There was a single lapis-lazuli bead in the box.

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