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

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 蚯蚓 【キュウイン】 earthworm

Kun reading compounds

  • 蚯蚓 【みみず】 earthworm, worm
  • 蚯蚓蜥蜴 【みみずとかげ】 worm lizard, amphisbaenian

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qiu1
Korean:
gu

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4129 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
32916 Morohashi
5300 New Nelson (John Haig)
6d5.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-5 SKIP code
5211.1 Four corner code
1-73-53 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
86af Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 枷蚯蚓 【カセミミズ】 Epimenia verrucosa (mollusc)
  • 糸蚯蚓 【イトミミズ】 tubifex worm

Kun reading compounds

  • 枷蚯蚓 【かせみみず】 Epimenia verrucosa (mollusc)
  • 糸蚯蚓 【いとみみず】 tubifex worm

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yin3
Korean:
in

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4120 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
32866 Morohashi
5285 New Nelson (John Haig)
6d4.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-4 SKIP code
5210.0 Four corner code
1-73-46 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8693 Unicode hex code