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Stroke order
Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Origin of the character
形声。「艸」+音符「台」。
Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.
Meaning
moss, lichen
English glosses from KANJIDIC2.
Readings
- On (Sino-Japanese)
- タイ
- Kun (native)
- こけ
- こけら
- Other languages
- 拼音tai2
- 拼音tai1
- 한글tae
- Hán-ViệtĐài
Basics
- Strokes
- 8 strokes
- Radical
- 艸(くさ)
- JIS level
- Level 1
- Unicode
U+82D4
Components
Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.
Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱艹台
Words using this kanji
- 苔こけmoss, short plants resembling moss (incl. other bryophytes, lichens, very small spermatophytes, etc.)
- 苔状たいじょうmossy
- 苔類こけるいbryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, incl. mosses, hornworts and liverworts)
- 苔癬たいせん丘疹を主な症状とする皮膚病変の一つ。lichen
- 苔庭こけにわmoss garden
- 苔類たいるいliverworts, hepatics (non-vascular plants of order Marchantiophyta)
- 苔桃こけももlingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea), cowberry
- 苔虫こけむしmoss animal (any animal of phylum Bryozoa)
- 苔玉こけだまkokedama, moss ball
- 苔むすこけむすto become covered in moss, to become mossy, to grow over with moss, to become aged
- 苔虫類こけむしるいbryozoans (animals of phylum Bryozoa)
- 苔瑪瑙こけめのうmoss agate
Words starting with this kanji, most common first.
Lookup codes
- SKIP
2-3-5- Four Corner
4460.3- Spahn–Hadamitzky
3k5.27- Heisig
- 2443
- Nelson
- 3921