Jisho

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5 strokes
Radical:
tile
Parts:
tile, gram
Kun:
かわらぐらむ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
1850 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 瓦斯 【ガス】 gas (as a fuel), gas (state of matter), poison gas, dense fog, thick fog, gas stove, gas cooker, gas range, gasoline, gas, petrol, flatulence, gas, wind, fart, gassed yarn
  • 瓦礫 【ガレキ】 rubble, debris, wreckage, tiles and pebbles, trash, rubbish
  • 鞍橋 【クラボネ】 saddle tree
  • 舗装煉瓦 【ホソウレンガ】 paving brick

Kun reading compounds

  • 瓦 【かわら】 roof tile
  • 瓦状 【かわらがさね】 imbricate, tegular, overlapping
  • 瓦 【グラム】 gram, gramme

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wa3, wa4
Korean:
wa

Spanish

  • teja

Portuguese

French

  • tuile
  • gramme
2977 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
201 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1216 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
4288 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2918 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1040 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
21438 Morohashi
3476 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3690 New Nelson (John Haig)
1031 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1108 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
0a5.11 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-1 SKIP code
1071.7 Four corner code
1011.7 Four corner code
1-20-04 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
74e6 Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 礫 【レキ】 small stone, gravel
  • 礫岩 【レキガン】 conglomerate stone
  • 石礫 【セキレキ】 pellet, pebble, small rock
  • 砂礫 【サレキ】 pebbles

Kun reading compounds

  • 礫 【つぶて】 stone (used for throwing)
  • 雪つぶて 【ゆきつぶて】 snowball
  • 天狗礫 【てんぐつぶて】 rock flying out of nowhere (while in the mountains)
  • 小石 【こいし】 pebble, small stone

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
li4
Korean:
ryeog

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3227 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2987 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
24572 Morohashi
4059 New Nelson (John Haig)
5a15.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-15 SKIP code
1269.4 Four corner code
1-67-10 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
792b Unicode hex code