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告

Level III of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 324 / 2,608

Announce

On’yomi
こく
Kun’yomi
つ
Radical
口 Mouth (Kangxi 30)
School grade
5
Strokes
7

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 消 (Extinguish), less common than 位 (Rank).

A slide drops down through dirt into a waiting mouth — someone slides through the dirt and announces their arrival loudly through the open mouth below.

In words

告げる つげる to informN1
告白 こくはく confession;acknowledgementN1
広告 こうこく advertisementN3

告 is rank 324 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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