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Kanji for Watchtower
The kanji for “watchtower” is 櫓, read ro and written in 19 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
櫓
watchtower
A tower or oar; standing watch.
Yagura were multi-story wooden watchtowers constructed along samurai castle stone walls for defensive archery and observation.
19 strokes On reading ロ (ro) Kun reading やぐら、おおだて (yagura, oodate)
Dictionary meanings: oar, tower
Readings used for names on Nazuke: ro
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