艾 — readings, stroke count and radical

brushStroke order

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

menu_bookMeaning

moxa, sagebrush, wormwood, mugwort

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

menu_bookReadings

On (Sino-Japanese)

• カイ
• ゲイ

Kun (native)

• もぐさ
• よもぎ
• おさ(める)
• か(る)

Other languages

• 拼音ai4
• 拼音yi4
• 한글ae
• Hán-ViệtNgải
• Hán-ViệtNghệ

infoBasics

Strokes

5 strokes

Radical

艸(くさ)

JIS level

Level 2

Unicode

U+827E

grid_viewComponents

• ノ
• 艹くさかんむり

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

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱艹乂

menu_bookWords using this kanji

• 艾もぐさよもぎの葉を陰干しし臼でついて裏側にある白い繊毛を集めたもので、灸に使われる。moxa (dried mugwort leaf used in moxibustion), Japanese mugwort (Artemisia princeps)

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(2 results)

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• 文One part differs
• 父One part differs
• 攵One part differs
• 爻One part differs

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

infoLookup codes

SKIP

2-3-2

Four Corner

4440.0

Spahn–Hadamitzky

3k2.2

Nelson

3892