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蜘

蜘 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. （虫の）くも。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

もと「䵹」字。「黽」 + 音符「𣉻」。「クモ」を意味する漢語、｛䵹｝を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

spider

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • チ
Kun (native)
  • くも
Other languages
  • 拼音zhi1
  • 한글ji
  • Hán-ViệtTri

Basics

Strokes
14 strokes
Radical
虫(むし)
JIS level
Level 1
Unicode
U+8718

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰虫知

Words using this kanji

  • 蜘蛛くもくもの漢語表現。スパイダー。spider
  • 蜘蛛猿くもざるspider monkey
  • 蜘蛛蘭くもらんTaeniophyllum glandulosum (species of orchid)
  • 蜘蛛手くもでradiating in all directions, in a radial pattern, crosswise
  • 蜘蛛の巣くものす「くものす」の漢字表記。spiderweb, spider web, spider's web, cobweb
  • 蜘蛛海星くもひとでbrittle star (any starfish-like echinoderm of the order Ophiuroidea), brittlestar, Ophioplocus japonicus (species of brittlestar)
  • 蜘蛛の子くものこbaby spider
  • 蜘蛛の糸くものいとThe Spider's Thread (1918 short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa)
  • 蜘蛛の巣黴クモノスカビRhizopus (saprobic fungus)
  • 蜘蛛の巣理論くものすりろんcobweb theorem
  • 蜘蛛の子を散らすくものこをちらすto scatter in all directions (like baby spiders)

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

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Lookup codes

SKIP
1-6-8
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5610.0
Spahn–Hadamitzky
6d8.2
Nelson
4158