劉 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning

weapon of war, logging axe, kill en masse, peeling (paint off a wall, etc), sparse, faded

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • リュウ
Kun (native)
  • ころ(す)
Nanori (used in names)
  • らう
  • のぶ
  • みずち
Other languages
  • 拼音liu2
  • 한글ryu
  • Hán-ViệtLưu

Basics

Strokes
15 strokes
Radical
刀(かたな)
JIS level
Level 1
Unicode
U+5289

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰⿱⿰𱍸刀金刂

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-13-2
Four Corner
7210.0
Spahn–Hadamitzky
2f13.1
Heisig
2270
Nelson
709