Jisho

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Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 匍球 【ホキュウ】 ground ball, grounder
  • 匍匐 【ホフク】 creeping, crawling, sneaking

Kun reading compounds

  • 這う 【はう】 to crawl, to creep, to go on all fours, to slither, to wriggle, to trail (of vines, flowers, etc.), to spread, to creep

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
pu2
Korean:
po

Spanish

Portuguese

French

748 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2527 Morohashi
575 New Nelson (John Haig)
0a9.13 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-7 SKIP code
2722.0 Four corner code
1-50-21 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
530d Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 匐行疹 【フクコウシン】 ringworm, serpigo
  • 匍匐 【ホフク】 creeping, crawling, sneaking

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fu2
Korean:
bog

Spanish

Portuguese

French

749 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2545 Morohashi
577 New Nelson (John Haig)
5f6.8 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-9 SKIP code
2762.0 Four corner code
1-50-22 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5310 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
Variants:
stalk, stem
Kun:
くき
On:
ケイキョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2013 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 茎頂 【ケイチョウ】 tip of a stem (of a plant)
  • 茎葉 【ケイヨウ】 stems and leaves
  • 塊茎 【カイケイ】 tuber
  • 包茎 【ホウケイ】 phimosis
  • 包茎 【ホウケイ】 phimosis
  • 陰茎 【インケイ】 penis

Kun reading compounds

  • 茎 【くき】 stalk, stem
  • 茎茶 【くきちゃ】 twig tea, stem tea, kukicha, tea made from twigs pruned from the tea plant during its dormant season
  • 水茎 【みずぐき】 writing brush, writing, handwriting
  • 一茎 【ひとくき】 one stem

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jing1
Korean:
gyeong

Spanish

  • tallo
  • caña
  • raíz

Portuguese

  • caule
  • talo

French

  • tige
  • queue
1194 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1995 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3912 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1291 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1700 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
684 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1474 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1571 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1836 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
647 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2788 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1432 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1931 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
722 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30861PX Morohashi
2242 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4991 New Nelson (John Haig)
715 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
772 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1214 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1972 2001 Kanji
3k5.23 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
4410.4 Four corner code
1-23-52 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
830e Unicode hex code