Jisho

×

4 strokes
Radical:
wrap, embrace
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 勾配 【コウバイ】 slope, incline, gradient, grade, pitch, slope (of a linear function), gradient (vector calculus)
  • 勾引 【コウイン】 arrest, custody, apprehending, abduction

Readings

Japanese names:
まがり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gou1
Korean:
gu, gwi

Spanish

Portuguese

French

741 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
168 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1734 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3660 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2546 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2500 Morohashi
2942 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
568 New Nelson (John Haig)
2148 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
800 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
0a4.8 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-2 SKIP code
2772.0 Four corner code
1-24-91 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
52fe Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
meat 肉 (⺼)
Parts:
Variants:
thigh, crotch
Kun:
またもも
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2212 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 股間 【コカン】 crotch, groin, area between the thighs
  • 股関節 【コカンセツ】 hip joint, coxa
  • 控股 【コウコ】 holdings, holding company
  • 四股 【シコ】 wrestler's ceremonial leg raising and stomping

Kun reading compounds

  • 股 【また】 groin, thigh, crotch, crutch, fork (in a tree, road, river, etc.), tines (of a fork)
  • 跨る 【またがる】 to straddle, to sit astride, to mount, to extend over, to spread over, to span, to extend into
  • お股 【おまた】 vulva, female genitals, female genital area
  • 小股 【こまた】 short steps, mincing stride, crotch, groin, thigh
  • 股 【もも】 thigh, femoral
  • 股白蝙蝠 【ももじろこうもり】 big-footed myotis (Myotis macrodactylus), eastern long-fingered bat, Japanese large-footed bat
  • 太もも 【ふともも】 thigh, buttocks, arse, ass, butt
  • 外股 【そともも】 outer thigh

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gu3
Korean:
go

Spanish

  • entrepierna
  • ingle
  • muslo
  • bifurcación

Portuguese

French

3739 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
615 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1055 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1093 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
785 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
29284 Morohashi
881 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4772 New Nelson (John Haig)
2454 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
764 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4b4.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-4 SKIP code
7724.7 Four corner code
1-24-52 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
80a1 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
bow
Parts:
bowstring, chord, hypotenuse
Kun:
つる
On:
ゲン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1773 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 弦 【ゲン】 bowstring, string (of a shamisen, etc.), stringed instrument, chord, hypotenuse
  • 弦楽 【ゲンガク】 music for strings, string music
  • 三弦 【サンゲン】 shamisen, samisen, sanxian (Chinese lute), the three string instruments used in gagaku (biwa, wagon and sou), three strings, three-stringed instrument
  • 移弦 【イゲン】 string-crossing (violin, cello, etc.)

Kun reading compounds

  • 弦 【つる】 bowstring, string (of shamisen, guitar, violin, etc.), bail (arched pot handle), diagonal levelling wire across the top of a masu
  • 弦音 【つるおと】 sound of vibrating bowstring

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xian2
Korean:
hyeon

Spanish

  • cuerda (arco
  • instrumento musical)
  • media luna
  • hipotenusa

Portuguese

  • Corda (arco
  • violão)
  • corda
  • hipotenusa

French

  • corde d'arc
  • corde
  • hypoténuse
1228 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1617 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1568 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1624 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1270 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1345 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1226 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1290 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1446 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
608 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
343 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
213 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
257 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1398 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
9754 Morohashi
287 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1688 New Nelson (John Haig)
1386 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1487 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1169 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3571 2001 Kanji
3h5.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
1023.2 Four corner code
1-24-25 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5f26 Unicode hex code