屮 — readings, stroke count and radical

  • Non-Jōyō kanji
  • 3 strokes

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. 草木の芽。芽生え。
  2. (「艸」に同じ)草。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

left hand, old grass radical (no. 45)

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • テツ
Kun (native)
  • ひだりて
Other languages
  • 拼音che4
  • 한글cheol
  • Hán-ViệtTriệt

Basics

Strokes
3 strokes
Radical
山(やま)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+5C6E

Components

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Composition (IDS): overlapping ⿻丨凵

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Lookup codes

SKIP
4-3-3
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2240.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
0a3.19