煤
Stroke order
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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
- 煤すす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.
Similar-looking kanji
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Lookup codes
- SKIP
1-4-9- Four Corner
9489.4- Spahn–Hadamitzky
4d9.6- Heisig
- 2600
- Nelson
- 2781