Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
silk
Kun:
きぬ
On:
ケン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
1916 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 絹布 【ケンプ】 silk, silk cloth
  • 絹糸 【キヌイト】 silk thread, silk yarn, corn silk
  • 生絹 【キギヌ】 raw silk (fabric)
  • 正絹 【ショウケン】 pure silk

Kun reading compounds

  • 絹 【きぬ】 silk
  • 絹糸 【きぬいと】 silk thread, silk yarn, corn silk
  • 白絹 【しらぎぬ】 white silk

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
juan4
Korean:
gyeon

Spanish

  • seda

Portuguese

  • seda

French

  • soie
772 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
861 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
664 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1010 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3543 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
658 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1632 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2330 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1261 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1333 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
880 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1538 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1721 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
920 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1243 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1380 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27470 Morohashi
1361 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4499 New Nelson (John Haig)
1368 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1468 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
957 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2746 2001 Kanji
6a7.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-7 SKIP code
2692.7 Four corner code
1-24-08 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7d79 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 絹紬 【ケンチュウ】 pongee (unbleached silk)

Kun reading compounds

  • 紬 【つむぎ】 tsumugi, pongee, traditional rough-surfaced cloth woven from raw silk
  • 紬糸 【つむぎいと】 tsumugi silk yarn, (spun) silk noil yarn
  • 結城紬 【ゆうきつむぎ】 silk products produced near Yūki (using natural indigo dye), Yūki pongee
  • 大島紬 【おおしまつむぎ】 Oshima tsumugi weave, type of pongee from Oshima

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chou2
Korean:
ju

Spanish

  • prenda tejida de seda

Portuguese

French

3513 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1951 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2193 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1684 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
896 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1215 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
27338 Morohashi
4462 New Nelson (John Haig)
2666 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2708 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6a5.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-5 SKIP code
2596.0 Four corner code
1-36-61 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7d2c Unicode hex code