Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
entwine, coil around, get caught in
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
806 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 絡繹 【ラクエキ】 constant (stream of traffic), incessant
  • 絡糸嬢 【ラクシジョウ】 cricket, bush-cricket
  • 短絡 【タンラク】 short circuit, short, illogical jump, drawing a hasty inference (between two events), jumping to conclusions, acting rashly
  • 脈絡 【ミャクラク】 logical connection, chain of reasoning, coherence, context, blood vessel

Kun reading compounds

  • 絡む 【からむ】 to twine, to get tangled, to get entangled, to get caught (in), to be involved (e.g. of money in a matter), to get involved (in), to be a factor (in), to have an influence, to pick a quarrel (with), to find fault (with), to pester, to hassle
  • 絡まる 【からまる】 to be entwined, to be involved

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
luo4, lao4
Korean:
rag

Spanish

  • entrelazar
  • enredar
  • rodear
  • ser atrapado
  • ser envuelto
  • ser enredado

Portuguese

  • enroscar
  • enrolar
  • ser apanhado em

French

  • enlacer
  • entrelacer
  • s'enrouler autour
  • s'empêtrer dans
1890 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
958 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3533 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
944 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
817 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
840 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
859 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
300 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1536 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1709 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
915 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1238 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1362 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27426 Morohashi
1351 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4484 New Nelson (John Haig)
1350 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1450 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1578 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2777 2001 Kanji
6a6.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-6 SKIP code
2796.4 Four corner code
1-45-77 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7d61 Unicode hex code