蝕 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

This stroke order diagram is drawn with 15 strokes; it can differ from the count above because the sources use slightly different glyph shapes.

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

Meaning

eclipse, occultation, be defective

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ショク
Kun (native)
  • むしば(む)
Other languages
  • 拼音shi2
  • 한글sig
  • Hán-ViệtThực

Basics

Strokes
14 strokes
Radical
虫(むし)
JIS level
Level 1
Unicode
U+8755

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰飠虫

Words using this kanji

  • 蝕むむしばむto be worm-eaten, to be eaten by worms, to affect adversely, to spoil

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(3 results)

Similar-looking kanji

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

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-8-6
Four Corner
8573.6
Spahn–Hadamitzky
8b6.1
Heisig
2816
Nelson
5165