Jisho

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16 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
sew, stitch, embroider
Kun:
ぬ.う
On:
ホウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1723 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 縫製 【ホウセイ】 sewing (by machine)
  • 縫腋 【ホウエキ】 stitched side of some traditional Japanese clothing, clothing with such a stitched side, robe with a round collar, stitched sides and a ran, worn by the emperor and high-ranking officials
  • 弥縫 【ビホウ】 patching up
  • 天衣無縫 【テンイムホウ】 perfect beauty with no trace of artifice, flawless

Kun reading compounds

  • 縫う 【ぬう】 to sew, to stitch, to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)

Readings

Japanese names:
ぬい
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
feng2, feng4
Korean:
bong

Spanish

  • cosido
  • zurcido
  • bordado
  • coser
  • zurcir
  • bordar

Portuguese

  • costurar
  • cozer
  • borda

French

  • coudre
  • suturer
  • broder
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1349 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
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27805P Morohashi
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4550 New Nelson (John Haig)
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1685 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1846 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2755 2001 Kanji
6a9.15 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-10 SKIP code
1-6-9 SKIP code
2793.4 Four corner code
1-43-05 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7e2b Unicode hex code