煤 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning

soot, smoke dried

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • バイ
  • マイ
Kun (native)
  • すす
Other languages
  • 拼音mei2
  • 한글mae
  • Hán-ViệtMôi

Basics

Strokes
13 strokes
Radical
火(ひ)
JIS level
Level 1
Unicode
U+7164

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰火某

Words using this kanji

  • すすsoot
  • 煤煙ばいえん石油や石炭などを燃焼させた時に生じる煤や煙。dirty smoke, soot and smoke
  • 煤塵ばいじん燃焼により発生する煤や塵などの微粒子。dust and soot, particulate matter
  • 煤色すすいろcolor of soot (colour)
  • 煤竹すすたけsoot-colored bamboo (coloured), bamboo duster (with the leaves still attached at one end)
  • 煤けるすすけるto be sooty, to be stained
  • 煤掃きすすはきsweeping the soot from one's house (to welcome the kami of the New Year)
  • 煤色面梟すすいろめんふくろうsooty owl (Tyto tenebricosa), greater sooty owl
  • 煤色信天翁すすいろあほうどりsooty albatross (Phoebetria fusca)

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(10 results)

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Lookup codes

SKIP
1-4-9
Four Corner
9489.4
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4d9.6
Heisig
2600
Nelson
2781