Jisho

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Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 垢衣 【コウイ】 dirty clothes, grimy clothes
  • 垢膩 【コウジ】 dirt and grease, filth, grime
  • 恥垢 【チコウ】 smegma
  • 膣垢 【チツコウ】 vaginal smear
  • 垢 【ク】 klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)
  • 垢膩 【コウジ】 dirt and grease, filth, grime
  • 無垢 【ムク】 pure, innocent, spotless, immaculate, unspoiled, pure, unmixed, unadulterated, long kimono made from the same plain-coloured cloth
  • 純粋無垢 【ジュンスイムク】 pure and innocent, immaculate

Kun reading compounds

  • 垢 【あか】 dirt, filth, grime
  • 垢 【アカ】 account (e.g. for an online service)
  • 廃垢 【はいアカ】 abandoned account (on social media, etc.), unused account, old account
  • 鍵垢 【かぎアカ】 private account (on social media, esp. Twitter), account that can only be viewed by approved followers

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gou4
Korean:
gu

Spanish

Portuguese

French

  • crasse
  • saleté
  • cérumen
1076 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
418 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1879 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5058 Morohashi
1008 New Nelson (John Haig)
2187 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2302 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1477 2001 Kanji
3b6.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-6 SKIP code
4216.1 Four corner code
1-25-04 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
57a2 Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
Variants:
once, before, formerly, ever, never, ex-, lick, lap up, burn up, taste, undergo, underrate, despise
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 嘗糞 【ショウフン】 shamelessly flattering, brown-nosing, licking excrement
  • 新嘗 【ニイナメ】 ceremonial offering to the deities by the Emperor of newly-harvested rice
  • 新嘗 【ニイナメ】 ceremonial offering to the deities by the Emperor of newly-harvested rice

Kun reading compounds

  • 嘗て 【かつて】 once, before, formerly, ever, former, ex-, never yet, never before, first time, still not happened
  • 嘗てない 【かつてない】 unprecedented, never seen before
  • 舐める 【なめる】 to lick, to lap, to suck, to taste, to experience (esp. a hardship), to underestimate, to make light of, to look down on (someone), to make a fool of, to treat with contempt, to disparage, to lick (at; of flames), to burn

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chang2
Korean:
sang

Spanish

Portuguese

French

1369 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3230 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2268 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
4205 Morohashi
878 New Nelson (John Haig)
2870 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2883 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3n11.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-9 SKIP code
9060.1 Four corner code
1-30-08 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5617 Unicode hex code