Jisho

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綿

14 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
cotton
Kun:
わた
On:
メン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
1495 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 綿 【メン】 cotton
  • 綿密 【メンミツ】 minute, detailed, careful, scrupulous, thorough
  • 石灰海綿 【セッカイカイメン】 calcareous sponge (any sponge of class Calcarea)
  • 六放海綿 【ロッポウカイメン】 hexactinellid sponge, glass sponge (any sponge of class Hexactinellida)

Kun reading compounds

  • 綿 【わた】 cotton plant (Gossypium spp.), batting, wadding, padding
  • 海神 【かいじん】 sea god, Poseidon, Neptune, sea, ocean
  • 結い綿 【ゆいわた】 traditional hairstyle worn by unmarried women
  • 中綿 【なかわた】 padding (clothing or bedding), insulation, cotton wadding, stuffing (furniture)

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mian2
Korean:
myeon

Spanish

  • algodón
  • prolongado
  • minucioso

Portuguese

  • Algodão

French

  • coton
725 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
818 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
798 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
854 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3566 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
822 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2538 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1191 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1251 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
881 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1544 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1736 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
929 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1254 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1379 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27592 Morohashi
1373 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4531 New Nelson (John Haig)
1367 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1467 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
803 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2744 2001 Kanji
6a8.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-8 SKIP code
2692.7 Four corner code
1-44-42 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7dbf Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
Variants:
slip out, extract, pull out, pilfer, quote, remove, omit
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N3
726 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 抜群 【バツグン】 outstanding, excellent, exceptional, distinguished, unrivaled, surpassing (e.g. beauty), beyond compare
  • 抜山蓋世 【バツザンガイセイ】 great strength and energy (of a mighty hero), Herculean strength and vitality
  • 卓抜 【タクバツ】 excellence, superiority, preeminence, prevalence
  • 警抜 【ケイバツ】 scintillating, extraordinarily excellent

Kun reading compounds

  • 抜く 【ぬく】 to pull out, to draw out, to extract, to unplug, to weed, to omit, to leave out, to go without, to skip, to do to the end, to do thoroughly, to do completely, to do severely, to let out (e.g. air from a tyre), to drain (e.g. water from a bath), to empty, to pick out, to choose, to select, to extract, to pilfer, to steal, to remove, to get rid of, to take out, to pass, to overtake, to outstrip, to get ahead of, to pierce, to break through, to go through, to cut out (a shape), to create (a pattern) by dying the surrounding area, to seize, to capture, to reduce, to scoop (a story), to take out (an opponent's stones; in go), to masturbate (of a male), to ejaculate (while masturbating), to take (a photo), to record (video)
  • 抜くべからざる 【ぬくべからざる】 deep-rooted (suspicion, etc.)
  • 抜き 【ぬき】 leaving out, omitting, skipping, dispensing with, (beating) in succession, in a row
  • 抜き打ち 【ぬきうち】 drawing a katana and attacking in the same stroke, doing (something) suddenly and without warning, doing without prior notice
  • 手抜き 【てぬき】 omitting crucial steps, cutting corners, skimping, intentional negligence, tenuki, making a move which is not a direct counter to one's opponent's last move
  • 栓抜き 【せんぬき】 bottle opener, corkscrew
  • 抜ける 【ぬける】 to come out, to fall out, to be omitted, to be missing, to escape, to come loose, to fade, to discolour, to wear a hole (e.g. clothes), to leave (e.g. a meeting), to be clear, to be transparent (e.g. of the sky), to be absentminded, to be careless, to be inattentive, to be foolish, to exit (a program loop), to go through, to pass through, to give way, to collapse, to finish a round with more than 88 points (not counting points gained from scoring combinations)
  • 抜けるような青空 【ぬけるようなあおぞら】 deep blue sky, bottomless blue sky
  • 抜かす 【ぬかす】 to omit, to leave out, to skip, to overtake, to pass, to say, to speak
  • 抜かる 【ぬかる】 to make a mistake

Readings

Japanese names:
ぬき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ba2
Korean:
bal, pae

Spanish

  • omitir
  • echar
  • extraer
  • tirar
  • quitar
  • sacar

Portuguese

  • deslizar
  • extrato
  • arrancar
  • furtar
  • citação
  • remover
  • omitir

French

  • arracher
  • extraire
  • chaparder
  • enlever
  • omettre
  • faire une erreur
1708 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
684 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1854 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1525 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
561 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
384 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1713 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1830 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
769 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
864 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
290 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
183 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
219 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
712 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11901P Morohashi
246 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2093 New Nelson (John Haig)
705 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
761 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1129 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1367 2001 Kanji
3c4.10 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-4 SKIP code
5404.7 Four corner code
1-40-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
629c Unicode hex code