藻 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning

seaweed, duckweed

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ソウJHS
Kun (native)
  • JHS
Other languages
  • 拼音zao3
  • 한글jo
  • Hán-ViệtTảo

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

Basics

Strokes
19 strokes
Radical
艸(くさ)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+85FB

Components

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

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱艹澡

Words using this kanji

  • (も)藻類。 (も)主に水中において、光合成をし生育する植物。algae, waterweed, seaweed, duckweed
  • 藻類そうるい地上で生活するこけやしだ、種子植物を除いた光合成をする生物の総称seaweeds, algae, waterweeds
  • 藻掻くもがくto struggle, to writhe, to wriggle, to squirm
  • 藻草もぐさwater plant, seaweed, algae
  • 藻屑もくずscraps of seaweed
  • 藻塩もしお「もしお」を参照。seaweed salt
  • 藻場もばseaweed bed, seaweed forest
  • 藻菌類そうきんるいalgal fungi
  • 藻塩草もしおぐさseaweed used in making salt, anthology
  • 藻屑蟹もくずがにもくずがに の漢字表記。Japanese mitten crab (Eriocheir japonica)
  • 藻掻きもがきstruggle, writhing, wriggling, floundering
  • 藻類学そうるいがく藻類について研究する学問。algology, phycology

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

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Lookup codes

SKIP
2-3-16
Four Corner
4419.4
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3k16.8
Heisig
2191
Nelson
4098