Kanji Database
English
砺

砺 — readings, stroke count and radical

  • Non-Jōyō kanji
  • 10 strokes

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. きめの粗い砥石(といし)。
  2. 磨く。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

「礪」の略体（「萬」→「万」の類推）。形声。「石」+音符「厲」。「砥石」を意味する漢語｛礪｝を表す字。もと「厲」が｛礪｝を表す字であったが、「石」を加えた。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

whetstone, polish

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • レイ
Kun (native)
  • あらと
  • みが(く)
Nanori (used in names)
  • と
Other languages
  • 拼音li4
  • 한글ryeo
  • Hán-ViệtLệ

Basics

Strokes
10 strokes
Radical
石(いし)
JIS level
Level 1
Unicode
U+783A

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰石厉

Similar-looking kanji

Selected automatically by comparing composition (IDS). “Same composition” means the parts and their arrangement match.

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-5-5
Four Corner
1162.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
5a14.1
Heisig
2641