臘 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Origin of the character

形声。「肉」+音符「巤」。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

12th lunar month

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ロウ
Other languages
  • 拼音la4
  • 拼音xi1
  • 한글rab
  • Hán-ViệtLạp

Basics

Strokes
19 strokes
Radical
肉(にく)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+81D8

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰月巤

Words using this kanji

  • ろうoffering ceremony held on the third day of the dog after the winter solstice, twelfth month of the lunisolar calendar, year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat)
  • 臘月ろうげつ陰暦十二月。twelfth lunar month, 12th month of the lunar calendar
  • 臘乾ラカンChinese smoked and salted ham

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(5 results)

Similar-looking kanji

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

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-4-15
Four Corner
7221.6
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4b15.3
Nelson
3830