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How do you read 靄 in Japanese?
A thin veil over the morning landscape.
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Read 靄 in 川に靄がかかる, describing mist over a river.
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Fine droplets can make distant scenery look whitish. Two hiragana beginning with mo.
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kanji with 雨 over 言 and 曷
rain radical 24 strokes misty scenery
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靄 has 24 strokes and the radical 雨 (rain). Radicals are dictionary classifications. The shape-based search phrases below provide other lookup clues.
靄24 strokes / radical: 雨 (rain)
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The answer is
もや
moya
靄
Understand the meaning
English translationMist
Mist that lightly obscures the landscape as fine droplets or particles hang in the air. It appears in descriptions of morning rivers and hills.
See it in a sentence
朝の川に薄い靄がかかり、対岸の木々がかすんでいた。Light morning mist lay over the river, softening the trees on the opposite bank.
A way to remember
This single character has 24 strokes. Look under 雨. Dictionaries distinguish this lighter mist from the denser fog described by 霧.
Sources：Kanjipedia: 靄
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Using 靄
靄が立ちこめる and 靄が晴れる describe changes in distant visibility. They can show a scene gradually coming into view.
例：朝の靄が薄れ、対岸の家並みが見えてきた。
As the morning mist thinned, the houses on the opposite bank came into view.
Reading and meaning in context
The reference describes 靄 as allowing better visibility than 霧. Learn the reading もや without treating a photograph alone as a precise weather measurement.
References for this explanation：Kanjipedia: 靄
Explanation checked on 2026-10-23. Additional examples were written by DuraRing for this page.
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