# 演 — Acting

Frequency rank 416 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

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

More common than 難 (Difficult), less common than 異 (Differ).

- On’yomi: えん
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 水 Water (Kangxi 85)
- Frequency path: Level IV of XX

A tsunami on the left, with roof, street, rice paddy, and fins packed on the right — a tsunami floods the roofed street by the rice paddy where finned creatures are acting in a grand performance.

In words:

- 演じる えんじる — to perform (a play);to play (a part);to act (a part);to commit (a blunder)
- 演ずる えんずる — to perform;to play
- 演奏 えんそう — musical performance

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