蝙 — readings, stroke count and radical

  • Non-Jōyō kanji
  • 15 strokes

Stroke order

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

Meaning

bat

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ヘン
Kun (native)
  • こうもり
Other languages
  • 拼音bian1
  • 한글pyeon
  • Hán-ViệtBiên
  • Hán-ViệtBiển

Basics

Strokes
15 strokes
Radical
虫(むし)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+8759

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰虫扁

Words using this kanji

  • 蝙蝠こうもりこうもり。bat (Chiroptera spp.), umbrella, opportunist, turncoat
  • 蝙蝠蛾こうもりがswift moth (Hepialidae spp., esp. Endoclita excrescens)
  • 蝙蝠も鳥のうちこうもりもとりのうちcapable or not, we are all in the same boat

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(39 results)

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-6-9
Four Corner
5312.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
6d9.14
Nelson
4168