Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
Variants:
thread
Kun:
いと
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N2
1488 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 糸 【シ】 thread, 0.0001, one ten-thousandth
  • 糸雨 【シウ】 drizzle, light rain, fine rain
  • 蚕糸 【サンシ】 silk thread, silk yarn
  • 金糸 【キンシ】 gold thread

Kun reading compounds

  • 糸 【いと】 thread, yarn, string
  • 糸口 【いとぐち】 beginning, start, first step, clue, lead, hint, thread end
  • 横糸 【よこいと】 weft, woof (crosswise threads on a loom)
  • 生糸 【きいと】 raw silk thread

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mi4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • hilo
  • hebra
  • cuerda

Portuguese

  • contexto

French

  • fil
83 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
75 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
27 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
699 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3492 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
113 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
807 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
720 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
242 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
242 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
409 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1503 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2703 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1379 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1866 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1345 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27221 Morohashi
2179 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4431 New Nelson (John Haig)
1333 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1431 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
58 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2741 2001 Kanji
6a0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-3 SKIP code
4-6-4 SKIP code
2290.3 Four corner code
2090.3 Four corner code
1-27-69 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7cf8 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
spinning
Kun:
つむ.ぐ
On:
ボウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1876 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 紡績 【ボウセキ】 spinning (textiles), spun yarn
  • 紡織 【ボウショク】 spinning and weaving
  • 混紡 【コンボウ】 mixed yarn, mixed spinning
  • 綿紡 【メンボウ】 cotton spinning

Kun reading compounds

  • 紡ぐ 【つむぐ】 to spin, to make yarn, to spin (a tale), to assemble (e.g. words), to put together

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fang3
Korean:
bang

Spanish

  • hilado
  • hilar

Portuguese

  • Girar

French

  • filage
1814 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1113 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3505 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1415 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1624 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1681 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1859 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2015 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1563 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1521 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1646 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
872 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1189 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1369 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27305 Morohashi
1295 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4450 New Nelson (John Haig)
1357 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1457 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1380 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2745 2001 Kanji
6a4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-4 SKIP code
2092.7 Four corner code
1-43-34 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7d21 Unicode hex code