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演

Level IV of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 416 / 2,608

Acting

On’yomi
えん
Kun’yomi
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Radical
水 Water (Kangxi 85)

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

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

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)N1
演ずる えんずる to perform;to playN1
演奏 えんそう musical performanceN3

演 is rank 416 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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