Jisho

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15 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
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On reading compounds

  • 撚糸 【ネンシ】 twisted thread or yarn, twining of thread or yarn

Kun reading compounds

  • 撚る 【よる】 to twist (yarn), to lay (rope)
  • 縒れる 【よれる】 to get twisted, to get kinked
  • 縒り 【より】 twist, ply
  • 撚り合わせる 【よりあわせる】 to intertwine, to twist together
  • 紙縒り 【こより】 string made from twisted paper
  • 捻る 【ひねる】 to twist, to wrench, to turn (a tap, switch, etc.), to twist (a body part), to bend, to sprain, to strangle (to death), to wring (an animal's neck), to defeat easily, to beat, to make (a problem, design, etc.) intricate, to make peculiar, to make complicated, to manage to compose (a haiku, song, etc.), to wrap (a monetary gift) in paper

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
nian3
Korean:
nyeon

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1997 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
12713 Morohashi
2278 New Nelson (John Haig)
2266 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2365 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3c12.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-12 SKIP code
5303.3 Four corner code
1-39-18 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
649a Unicode hex code