緯 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Origin of the character

形声。「糸」+音符「韋」。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

horizontal, woof, left & right, (parallels of) latitude, prediction

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • JHS
Kun (native)
  • よこいと
  • ぬき
Other languages
  • 拼音wei3
  • 한글wi
  • Hán-Việt

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
16 strokes
Radical
糸(いと)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+7DEF

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰糸韋

Words using this kanji

  • 緯度いどある地点に地球の中心から伸ばした線と赤道面がなす角により、地球上の位置を表す方法。latitude
  • 緯線いせん緯度の等しい地点を結んだ線。parallel, latitude line
  • 緯書いしょ漢の時代において経書を神秘主義的に書いた書物。book of omens appended to Confucian Chinese classics
  • 緯距いきょlatitude
  • 緯度変化いどへんかlatitude variation
  • 緯度観測所いどかんそくじょlatitude observatory

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(21 results)

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-6-10
Four Corner
2495.6
Spahn–Hadamitzky
6a10.7
Heisig
1774
Nelson
3579