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虜

虜 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. とりこ。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「力」+音符「𧆨」。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

captive, barbarian, low epithet for the enemy

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • リョJHS
  • ロ
Kun (native)
  • とりこ
  • とりく
Other languages
  • 拼音lu3
  • 한글ro
  • Hán-ViệtLỗ

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

Basics

Strokes
13 strokes
Radical
虍(とらがしら)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+865C

Components

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

Composition (IDS): enclosure ⿸虍男

Words using this kanji

  • 虜とりこcaptive, prisoner, victim (of love, etc.), slave (to one's lust, etc.)
  • 虜りょcaptive, prisoner, foreigner, barbarian
  • 虜囚りょしゅう戦で敵に囚われた者。captive, prisoner (of war)

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(11 results)

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
3-4-9
Four Corner
2122.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
2m11.2
Heisig
2146
Nelson
4111