巽 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. へりくだる。
  2. 八卦の一つ。卦の形は画像:Xun.pngであり、初爻は陰、第2爻・第3爻は陽で構成される。
  3. 六十四卦の一つ。卦の形は20pxであり、巽下巽上(そんかそんしょう)で構成される。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「丌」+音符「𠨎」。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

southeast

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ソン
Kun (native)
  • たつみ
Other languages
  • 拼音xun4
  • 한글son
  • Hán-ViệtTốn

Basics

Strokes
12 strokes
Radical
巾(はば)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+5DFD

Components

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

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱⿰巳巳共

Words using this kanji

  • そん(たつみ)東南の方角。辰巳。辰(たつ)と巳(み)の間であることから。 (たつみ)日本人の姓の一つ。xun (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: wind, southeast)
  • 巽位そんいsoutheast
  • 巽為風そんいふうxun (hexagram 57 of the I Ching: wind, the gentle)

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(3 results)

Lookup codes

SKIP
2-6-6
Four Corner
7780.1
Spahn–Hadamitzky
2o10.7
Heisig
2861
Nelson
601