Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
strangle, constrict, wring
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1288 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 絞 【コウ】 death by hanging (punishment in the ritsuryō system)
  • 絞殺 【コウサツ】 strangulation, strangling

Kun reading compounds

  • 絞る 【しぼる】 to wring (towel, rag), to squeeze, to squeeze (fruit to extract juice), to press, to extract, to milk, to express milk, to rack (one's brains), to strain (one's voice), to extort, to exploit, to chew out, to reprimand severely, to rake over the coals, to give a sound scolding, to tell someone off, to scold, to rebuke, to drill into, to train, to narrow down (one's focus), to whittle down, to gather up (curtain, etc.), to tighten (drawstring), to stop down (lens), to turn down (e.g. radio), to bend (bow), to draw, to hold down, to constrict, to immobilize
  • 絞める 【しめる】 to strangle, to constrict
  • 絞まる 【しまる】 to be strangled, to be constricted

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jiao3, jia3
Korean:
gyo

Spanish

  • constreñir
  • contraer
  • torcer
  • estrujar

Portuguese

  • estrangular
  • apertar
  • torcer

French

  • étrangler
  • serrer
  • tordre
1261 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1825 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3535 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1394 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1630 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1452 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1545 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1565 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1533 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1707 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
913 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1236 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1360 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27421 Morohashi
1349 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4485 New Nelson (John Haig)
1348 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1448 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1576 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2766 2001 Kanji
6a6.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-6 SKIP code
2094.8 Four corner code
1-25-42 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7d5e Unicode hex code

5 strokes (also 4)
Radical:
walk 辵 (辶, ⻌, ⻍)
Parts:
crowded, mixture, in bulk, included, (kokuji)
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N3
675 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Kun reading compounds

  • 込む 【こむ】 to be crowded, to be packed, to be congested, to be thronged (with), to be complex, to be intricate, to go into, to go in, to put into, to become (completely), to do thoroughly, to do sufficiently, to remain (silent, seated, etc.), to stay ...
  • 込み 【こみ】 including ..., inclusive of ..., bundling together (items of different size, quality, etc.), lumping together, komi, extra points given to the white player as compensation for playing second
  • 混み合う 【こみあう】 to be crowded, to be packed, to be jammed
  • 割り込み 【わりこみ】 queue jumping, breaking into a line, muscling in on, wedging oneself in, interruption, sharing a theater box (theatre), interrupt
  • 取り込み 【とりこみ】 taking in, bringing in, capturing (e.g. customers), attracting, winning over, pleasing, confusion, bustle, misfortune, disorder, importing (e.g. data), capturing (e.g. image)
  • 込める 【こめる】 to load (a gun, etc.), to charge, to put into (e.g. emotion, effort), to include (e.g. tax in a sales price), to hang over, to shroud, to enshroud, to envelop, to screen

Readings

Japanese names:
こみ、 ごめ
Korean:
ib

Spanish

  • abarrotar
  • llenarse
  • apiñarse
  • meter
  • incluir

Portuguese

  • apinhado
  • misturar
  • em volume
  • incluido

French

  • encombré
  • mélange
  • en gros
  • inclus
  • (kokuji)
1275 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
280 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4660 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
987 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
948 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
178 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.9 Japanese for Busy People
776 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
790 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
961 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
675 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3762 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1917 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2608 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
787 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
38712P Morohashi
3030 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6010 New Nelson (John Haig)
780 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
843 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
396 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
1055 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3562 2001 Kanji
2q2.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-2 SKIP code
3-2-2 SKIP code
3830.0 Four corner code
1-25-94 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8fbc Unicode hex code