蛎 — readings, stroke count and radical

  • Non-Jōyō kanji
  • 11 strokes

Stroke order

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

Origin of the character

「蠣」の略体(「萬」→「万」の類推)。「蠣」については蠣#字源の項目を参照。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

oyster

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • レイ
Kun (native)
  • かき
Other languages
  • 拼音li4
  • 한글roe
  • Hán-ViệtLại
  • Hán-ViệtLệ
  • Hán-ViệtLị
  • Hán-ViệtLợi
  • Hán-ViệtLỵ

Basics

Strokes
11 strokes
Radical
虫(むし)
JIS level
Level 1
Unicode
U+86CE

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰虫厉

Similar-looking kanji

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

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-6-5
Four Corner
5112.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
6d14.3
Heisig
2736