堀
Stroke order
Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Meaning
ditch, moat, canal
English glosses from KANJIDIC2.
Readings
- On (Sino-Japanese)
- クツ
- Kun (native)
- ほりJHS
- Nanori (used in names)
- ほっ
- Other languages
- 拼音ku1
- 拼音jue2
- 한글gul
- Hán-ViệtQuật
Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.
Basics
- Strokes
- 11 strokes
- Radical
- 土(つち)
- JIS level
- Level 1
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Unicode
U+5800
Components
Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.
Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰土屈
Words using this kanji
- 堀ほりmoat, fosse, canal, ditch
- 堀江ほりえcanal
- 堀川ほりかわ「ほりかわ」の漢字表記。canal
- 堀端ほりばたside of a moat
- 堀割ほりわりcanal, waterway, ditch
- 堀切りほりきりman-made water channel (e.g. round a castle), artificial trench, moat
- 堀散らすほりちらすto dig up messily
Words starting with this kanji, most common first.
Similar-looking kanji
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Lookup codes
- SKIP
1-3-8- Four Corner
4717.2- Spahn–Hadamitzky
3b8.11- Heisig
- 1142
- Nelson
- 1095