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Skill Branch Technique Balancing 技 ギ わざ Art

Kanji
Onyomi
Kunyomi わざ
English skill, art, craft, ability, feat, performance, vocation, arts
Examples 技術(ぎじゅつ): art; craft; technique; technology; engineering; skill
競技(きょうぎ): game; match; contest
演技(えんぎ): acting; performance
技(わざ): technique; art
技能(ぎのう): technical skill; ability; capacity
技師(ぎし): engineer; technician
特技(とくぎ): special skill
JLPT Level 2
Jouyou Grade 5
Frequency 434
Components 手: hand
支: branch; support; sustain; branch radical (no. 65)
Number of Strokes 7
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 64
Radical Strokes 4
Radical Reading て・てへん
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 形声 Phonetic
Keyword skill
Koohii Story 1 (Adapted from darg_sama´s) Balancing a branch on your finger is the prototypical example of a skill that is nothing more than a skill (i.e., it is completely useless).
Koohii Story 2 I think of a guy balancing a branch on his finger, which definitely takes some minimal amount of skill.
RTK Index 712

Tags: jlpt.n2, grade5, kanjifreq251-500

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