俳 (actor, haiku) - Kanji Codex

俳

actor, haiku

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

ハイ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

N/A

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Information

Grade:6

Strokes:10

JLPT:1

Frequency:1137

Vocabulary

ハイ

Word	Reading	Meaning
俳句	ハイク	haiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae
俳人	ハイジン	haiku poet
俳優	ハイユウ	actor; actress; player; performer
俳壇	ハイダン	the world of the haiku
俳諧	ハイカイ	haikai (collective name for haiku, haibun, haiga, senryū, etc.); haikai no renga (humorous, often vulgar style of renga which emerged in the 16th century); absurd; comical

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
雑俳	ざっぱい	playful literature originating from haiku
俳諧の連歌	はいかいのれんが	haikai no renga (humorous, often vulgar style of renga which emerged in the 16th century)
天狗俳諧	てんぐはいかい	parlour game in which three people each write one line of a 5-7-5 poem (without seeing the other lines; often producing humorous results); tengu haiku
アクション俳優	アクションはいゆう	action movie actor; action star
映画俳優組合	えいがはいゆうくみあい	Screen Actors Guild; SAG

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