曳 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning

pull, tug, jerk, admit, install, quote, refer to

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • エイ
Kun (native)
  • ひ(く)
Nanori (used in names)
  • ひき
  • びき
Other languages
  • 拼音zhuai4
  • 拼音yi4
  • 한글ye
  • Hán-ViệtDuệ

Basics

Strokes
6 strokes
Radical
曰(ひらび)
JIS level
Level 1
Unicode
U+66F3

Components

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

Composition (IDS): overlapping ⿻㇂⿱日丿

Words using this kanji

  • 曳航えいこう船で荷物や他の船を引っ張って航行すること。towing (a ship)
  • 曳子ひきこjinrikisha puller
  • 曳船えいせん港湾で大型の船舶やいかだなどを押したり引いたりする小型の船舶。タグボート。tugboat, tug, towboat, tugging (a boat)
  • 曳々えいえいheaving, pulling
  • 曳網ひきあみdragnet, seine
  • 曳山ひきやまfestival float
  • 曳家ひきやbuilding relocation (without disassembly), house relocation
  • 曳舞ひきまいbuilding relocation (without disassembly), house relocation
  • 曳火えいかairburst, bursting in the air (of a shell, projectile, etc.)
  • 曳火弾えいかだんtime-fuze shell, time-fuse shell, air-burst shell
  • 曳光弾えいこうだんtracer bullet, star shell, flare bomb
  • 曳痕弾えいこんだんtracer bullet, tracer shell

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(15 results)

Lookup codes

SKIP
4-6-4
Four Corner
5000.6
Spahn–Hadamitzky
0a6.23
Heisig
2863
Nelson
100