壷 — readings, stroke count and radical

  • Non-Jōyō kanji
  • 11 strokes

Stroke order

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

Origin of the character

「壺」の行書体に由来する略体。「壺」については壺#字源の項目を参照。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

jar, pot, hinge knuckle, one's aim

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
Kun (native)
  • つぼ
Other languages
  • 拼音hu2
  • 한글ho
  • Hán-ViệtHồ

Basics

Strokes
11 strokes
Radical
士(さむらい)
JIS level
Level 1
Unicode
U+58F7

Components

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

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿳𡉅⿻〢口一

Words using this kanji

  • 壷黴ツボカビchytrid (any simple, algaelike fungi of order Chytridiales)
  • 壷洗いつぼあらいindividually "washing" a partner's fingers or toes in one's vagina (esp. as a service at a soapland)

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(8 results)

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
2-3-8
Four Corner
4010.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3p9.2
Heisig
2913
Nelson
1093