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塚

塚 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Origin of the character

形声。「土」 + 音符「冢」。「つか」を意味する漢語｛塚｝を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

hillock, mound

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • チョウ
Kun (native)
  • つかJHS
  • 〜づか
Nanori (used in names)
  • ずか
  • つ
Other languages
  • 拼音zhong3
  • 한글chong
  • Hán-ViệtTrủng

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
12 strokes
Radical
土(つち)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+585A

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰土冢

Words using this kanji

  • 塚つか（つか）周囲の地面よりこんもりと丸く盛り上がった場所。mound, heap, hillock, burial mound
  • 塚穴つかあなgrave
  • 塚造つかつくりmegapode (any bird of family Megapodiidae, incl. brush turkeys and mallee fowl), mound builder
  • 塚を築くつかをきずくto pile up a mound

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(40 results)

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-3-9
Four Corner
4713.2
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3b9.10
Heisig
1117
Nelson
1104