圍 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

This stroke order diagram is drawn with 12 strokes; it can differ from the count above because the sources use slightly different glyph shapes.

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. 囲の旧字体。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「囗」 + 音符「韋」。「かこむ」を意味する漢語{圍}を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

enclose, surround, encircle, preserve, store, keep

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
Kun (native)
  • かこ(む)
  • かこ(う)
  • かこ(い)
Other languages
  • 拼音wei2
  • 한글wi
  • Hán-ViệtVi

Basics

Strokes
13 strokes
Radical
囗(くにがまえ)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+570D

Components

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

Composition (IDS): enclosure ⿴囗韋

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
3-3-10
Four Corner
6050.6
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3s4.2
Nelson
1044